The frog (Ernest R. Newton)

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• (Posted 2023-11-21)  CPDL #77512:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 617 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: SATB version

General Information

Title: The frog
Composer: Ernest R. Newton
Lyricist: Frederic Edward Weatherly
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1918 Novello and Co.
Description: Originally published for TTBB in The Orpheus (Novello). Arrangement for SATB by the composer.

Original text and translations

English text

There sat a Frog in a river bed,
Croak! croak! croak!
“I wish I were big as an ox,” he said,
It would be a joke!”

So he swelled himself out as a little frog would,
Puff! puff! puff!
But tho’ he did it as much as he could,
It wasn’t enough!

Then sadly down on the bank he lay!
Croak! croak! croak!
And he did what a banker sometimes may.
He broke!