by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
The mouse and the bumblebee
Language: English
A cat came fiddling out of a barn, With a pair of bagpipes under her arm. She could sing nothing but fiddle-de-dee, The mouse shall marry the bumblebee. Pipe, cat, dance, mouse! We’ll have a wedding at our good house. Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-de-dee, The mouse has married the bumblebee. They went to church and married was she, The mouse has married the bumblebee. The cat came fiddling out of the barn, With a pair of bagpipes under her arm. She sang nothing but fiddle-de-dee, Which worried the mouse and the bumblebee. Puss began purring, the mouse ran away, And the bee flew off with a loud huzra!
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012), "The mouse and the bumblebee", 2004 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Songs before sleep, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Mike Pearson
This text was added to the website: 2016-07-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 106