Direct mp3 download or play: Frog Went A-Courtin’
Favorite Part “He got swallowed up by a water snake”
Direct mp3 download or play: Fiddle Dee Dee
Favorite Part “Live with peace with bumblebee”
When I was a kid around 1960, I would play these two songs over and over. At one point, I played them on the Victrola, and that of course ruined them. The Victrola steel needle was too heavy and it just dug into the vinyl, ruining them. It did play quite well at first, but only once or twice before the surface noise took over. I finally found the audio on the internet, and for the first time in over fifty years, I’m able to hear these songs clearly.
Victrola Needles
On Fiddle Dee Dee the line “Did you ever hear a merrier thing?,” I thought was “Did you ever see such a vicarious thing” and I wondered if any little children actually know what “vicarious” means. To this day I don’t know what “vicarious” means!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI just can’t hear that song without thinking of Shug Fisher in the ‘Pecos Pest’ episode of Tom and Jerry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOwhrCkMiKA
You sure the vicarious part isn’t: “You’ll never know I carry a sting”. Because that line jumped out at me. Thought it said: “You’ll never know a vicarious thing”. Which is pretty friggin’ deep!
…and I now regret not saying it’s “pretty froggin’ deep”. Oh well…
I’m back! Well at least for the moment. Josh , your right. It is quite deep. I guess I’m a little vicarious. The word looks and sounds important in a psychological sort of way. Now I’d better look up “vicarious” in a dictionary!
That was a nifty rendition of “Frog Went A-Courtin'”, pahool.
Here’s the lyrics to “Fiddle Dee Dee.” I was confused about some of the lyrics and this makes everything clear.
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
Says the fly, says he
“Will you marry me?
And live with me, sweet Bumble Bee?”
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
Says the Bee, says she
“I’ll live under your wing
You’ll never know I carry a sting”
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
So when Joyce and Beetle he joined the pair
They both took off to take the air
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
Oh the flies did buzz and the bells did ring
Did you ever hear a merrier thing!
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee
Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee
The Fly has married the Bumble Bee