In the same suite of nursery/children's songs,
"The Animal World," comes a setting of this poem.


THE SQUIRREL
by Alexina B. Mease White

Whisky, frisky,
Hippity hop,
Up he goes
To the tree top!

Whirly, twirly,
Round and round,
Down he comes
To the ground.

Furly, curly,
What a tail!
Tall as a feather,
Broad as a sail!

Where's his supper?
In the shell;
Snappy, cracky,
Out it fell!

Stir the fire,
Put on the pot;
Here's his supper
Hissing hot!

-- from Little-folk Songs by Alexina B. White, Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1800, pages 11 - 12.

"Continuity" writer and curator Julie Laurence, for the "Tell it Again" project, found a version of this poem which omits the last stanza about supper cooking in the pot, so this stanza is not heard in Moondog's musical setting. Instead it concludes with the squirrel working on the nutshell: snappy, cracky, out it fell.

Martyn Green sings the nursery rhyme at a brisk tempo.