Market Square [AA MILNE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2013-10-04

Here is another poem from 'When We Were Very Young' which I have set to music. I used the theme from my Herder's Song which is uploaded to youtube and for which the score (together with midi mp3 etc) can be downloaded from:

http://www.free-scores.com/Download-PDF-Sheet-Music-tobydarling.htm

The video was shot on the IOW ferry leaving Yarmouth, Isle of Wight for Lymington.

Market Square (AA Milne)  (Capo on 2)

Intro: Dm Am Bb F Gm Dm C Dm [verse instr]

I had a penny,
A bright new penny,
I took my penny
To the market square.
I wanted a rabbit,
A little brown rabbit,
And I looked for a rabbit
'Most everywhere.
 
C Gm F C
For I went to the stall where they sold sweet lavender
Dm Am
("Only a penny for a bunch of lavender!").
Dm Am
"Have you got a rabbit, 'cos I don't want lavender?"
Dm C Bb C
But they hadn't got a rabbit, not anywhere there.

I had a penny,
And I had another penny,
I took my pennies
To the market square.
I did want a rabbit,
A little baby rabbit,
And I looked for rabbits
'Most everywhere.

And I went to the stall where they sold fresh mackerel
("Now then! Tuppence for a fresh-caught mackerel!").
"Have you got a rabbit, 'cos I don't like mackerel?"
But they hadn't got a rabbit, not anywhere there.

Instr: Dm C Bb Am F Am Dm C Bb C Dm Dm

I found a sixpence,
A little white sixpence.
I took it in my hand
To the market square.
I was buying my rabbit
I do like rabbits),
And I looked for my rabbit
'Most everywhere.

So I went to the stall where they sold fine saucepans
("Walk up, walk up, sixpence for a saucepan!").
"Could I have a rabbit, 'cos we've got two saucepans?"
But they hadn't got a rabbit, not anywhere there.

I had nuffin',
No, I hadn't got nuffin',
So I didn't go down
To the market square;
But I walked on the common,
The old-gold common...
And I saw little rabbits
'Most everywhere!

So I'm sorry for the people who sell fine saucepans,
I'm sorry for the people who sell fresh mackerel,
I'm sorry for the people who sell sweet lavender,
'Cos they haven't got a rabbit, not anywhere there!

Rpt instr