> in 1941 Paul Hindemith composed a set of
> variations for violoncello and piano
> about an old English Nursery Song
> "A frog he went a-courting".
>
> Can anybody give me the tune of this
> of this song?
>
> You can of course use MusixTeX, PMX or MT-x,
> or send me a ps-file or URLocation ...
>
> To my knowledge it has 13 verses,
> the first being
>
> "A frog he went a-courting, he did ride
> With a pistol and a sword hung by his side."
umm, i wonder if it's the same thing i learnt (all those years ago)
which started
"a frog he would a-wooing go
heigh! ho! says roly
whether his mother would let him or no
with a roly, poly, gammon and spinach
heigh ho! says anthony roly"
the rest of the story (a heartbreaker if ever there was) sounds the
same... i don't know the hindemith, so can't say if it is the same.
i guess i could record me singing it (though my singing voice isn't
what it was), or playing it ... then you could transcribe (that's the
way folksongs work, isn't it ;-)...
robin
