Lyr Add: Hey, My Kitten, My Kitten

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Lyr Add: Hey, My Kitten, My Kitten

06 Oct 09 - 02:10 PM (#2739764)
Subject: Lyr Add: Hey, My Kitten, My Kitten
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Discovered that this song is missing in the collection...(or else there really IS a search problem - I think not)

From Opie, Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes 1955, #288, p 255.

Hey, My Kitten, My Kitten.
Author: Dean Swift (letter 1765)
Tune: Yellow Stockings

Hey, my kitten, my kitten,
And hey my kitten, my deary!
Such a sweet pet as this
There is not far nor neary.
Here we go up, up, up,
Here we go down, down, downy,
Here we go backwards and forwards,
And here we go round, round, roundy.

Yellow Stockings - a jig in 9/8 time
Available through the generous fellow at ABC Notation - and in midi and score too.

Yellow Stockings Tune

http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/_jc/music/book/ryan-cole/Tunes/YellowStockingsJig/0000

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Playing with the Mudcat Lyrics & Knowledge Search because a certain moderator was having "issues" and berating Max's "search fix" this afternoon. Search works just grand. This song seems appropriate for that mod's mood today.