Mr  Frog Went A Courting
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 08/06/2020

Day 84 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series.

Sandburg writes: "In continuous use for four hundred years," L. W. Payne tells us in a forty-four page history  of the song in Publication No. 5 of the Texas Folk Lore Society; he prints sixteen tunes and has  many more. The following is a Kentucky and Virginia version, with text additions from Payne.  "Ah-hah" can be "ulm-huhn," "eh-heh," "och-kungh" (like a bull frog) and, as you please."

There are quite a number of verses for this song. Many quite violent. Sandburg's version is quite tame, although several of the wedding party get eaten. 

The only change I made to the Sandburg version is repeating the first line of every verse, and leaving out a few a-hahs.