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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Baby's Opera, by Walter Crane,
+Illustrated by Walter Crane
+
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+Title: The Baby's Opera
+
+
+Author: Walter Crane
+
+
+
+Release Date: May 10, 2008  [eBook #25418]
+
+Language: English
+
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+Transcriber's note:
+
+      All song titles are part of an illustration in the original,
+      and are marked as such, e.g., [Illustration: JACK AND JILL].
+      Lyrics contained in the music notation are marked as [Music:
+      lyrics].
+
+      In the original, some titles use V for U and I for J. This
+      has been preserved in this e-book.
+
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+
+
+THE BABY'S OPERA
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses
+
+by
+
+WALTER CRANE
+
+The Music by the Earliest Masters
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: 1ST FIDDLE]
+
+
+[Illustration: KING COLE]
+
+
+
+
+THE BABY'S OPERA
+
+A
+Book of Old
+Rhymes with
+New Dresses
+
+by
+
+WALTER CRANE,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Music by
+the Earliest
+Masters
+
+
+Engraved, & Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans.
+
+London
+Frederick Warne and Co.
+and New York
+
+[Illustration: BABY'S OPERA]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_TO_
+
+_THE HONOURABLE_
+
+_MRS. GEORGE HOWARD_
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CONTENTS]
+
+
+_Page_
+
+9. _Girls and Boys._
+
+10, 11. _The Mulberry Bush._
+
+12. _Oranges and Lemons._
+
+13. _St. Paul's Steeple._
+
+14, 15. _My Lady's Garden._
+
+16. _Natural History._
+
+17. _Lavender's Blue._
+
+18, 19. _I saw Three Ships._
+
+20. _Ding Dong Bell._
+
+21. _Puss at Court._
+
+22. _Three Blind Mice._
+
+23. _Dickory Dock._
+
+24, 25. _Ye Frog's Wooing._
+
+26, 27. _Ye Frog and Ye Crow._
+
+28, 29. _Mrs. Bond._
+
+30. _Xmas Day in ye Morning._
+
+31. _Little Jack Horner._
+
+32, 33. _King Arthur._
+
+34. _Ye Jolly Miller._
+
+35. _Ye Song of Sixpence._
+
+36, 37. _Bo-Peep._
+
+38. _Baa! Baa! Black Sheep._
+
+39. _Tom, the Piper's Son._
+
+40, 41. _There was a Lady Loved a Swine._
+
+42. _Over the Hills & far away._
+
+43. _Cock Robin & Jenny Wren._
+
+44, 45. _I had a little Nut Tree._
+
+46. _Dr. Faustus._
+
+47. _Three Children._
+
+48, 49. _My Pretty Maid._
+
+50. _The Ploughboy in Luck._
+
+51. _Warm Hands._
+
+52, 53. _Jack & Jill._
+
+54. _Dance a Baby._
+
+55. _Hush-a-by Baby._
+
+56. _King Cole._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: GIRLS AND BOYS]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. Girls and boys come out to play,
+   The moon doth shine as bright as day;
+   Leave your supper, and leave your sleep;
+   Come to your playfellows in the street;
+
+2. Come with a whoop, and come with a call.
+   Come with a good will or not at all.
+   Up the ladder and down the wall,
+   A penny loaf will serve you all.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE MVLBERRY BVSH]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Here we go round the mulberry bush,
+the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush;
+Here we go round the mulberry bush,
+All on a frosty morning.
+
+This is the way we clap our hands,
+This is the way we clap our hands,
+This is the way we clap our hands,
+All on a frosty morning.]
+
+[Illustration: HERE WE GO ROVND THE MVLBERRY BVSH]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: ORANGES & LEMONS]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Oranges and lemons, says the bells of St. Clemen's;
+You owe me five farthings, says the bells of St. Martin's;
+When will you pay me, says the bells of Old Bailey;
+When I grow rich, says the bells of Shoreditch;
+When will that be? says the bells of Stepney;
+I do not know, says the great bell of Bow.
+
+Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
+And here comes a chopper to chop off your head.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: ST PAVL'S STEEPLE]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree
+As full of apples as may be,
+The little boys of London town
+They run with hooks to pull them down;
+And then they run from hedge to hedge
+Until they come to London Bridge.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MY LADY'S GARDEN]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+How does my lady's garden grow?
+How does my lady's garden grow?
+With silver bells, and cockle shells,
+And pretty maids all in a row!]
+
+[Illustration: HOW DOES MY LADY'S GARDEN GROW?]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: NATURAL HISTORY]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. What are little boys made of?
+   What are little boys made of?
+   Frogs and snails and puppy-dog's tails,
+   And that are little boys made of.
+
+2. What are little girls made of?
+   What are little girls made of?
+   Sugar and spice and all that's nice,
+   And that are little girls made of.]
+
+3. What are young men made of?
+   What are young men made of?
+   Sighs and leers, and crocodile tears,
+   And that are young men made of.
+
+4. What are young women made of?
+   What are young women made of?
+   Ribbons and laces, and sweet pretty faces,
+   And that are young women made of.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: LAVENDER'S BLUE]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. Lavender's blue, diddle, diddle!
+     Lavender's green;
+   When I am king, diddle, diddle!
+     You shall be queen.]
+
+2. Call up your men, diddle, diddle!
+     Set them to work;
+   Some to the plough, diddle, diddle!
+     Some to the cart.
+
+3. Some to make hay, diddle, diddle!
+     Some to cut corn;
+   While you and I, diddle, diddle!
+     Keep ourselves warm.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: I SAW THREE SHIPS]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. I saw three ships come sailing by,
+   Sailing by, sailing by,
+   I saw three ships come sailing by,
+     On New-year's Day in the morning.
+
+2. And what do you think was in them then,
+   In them then, in them then,
+   And what do you think was in them then,
+     On New-year's Day in the morning?]
+
+3. Three pretty girls were in them then,
+   In them then, in them then,
+   Three pretty girls were in them then,
+     On New-year's Day in the morning.
+
+4. And one could whistle, and one could sing,
+   The other play on the violin;
+   Such joy there was at my wedding,
+     On New-year's Day in the morning.
+
+[Illustration: I SAW THREE SHIPS]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DING DONG BELL]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Ding dong bell!
+Pussy's in the well!
+Who put her in?
+Little Tommy Lin.
+Who pulled her out?
+Little Tommy Stout.
+What a naughty boy was that
+To drown poor pussy-cat,
+Who ne'er did any harm,
+But killed all the mice in father's barn.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: PUSS AT COURT]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?"
+"I've been to London to look at the Queen."
+"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?"
+"I caught a little mouse under the chair."]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THREE BLIND MICE]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Three blind mice,
+See how they run!
+They all ran after the farmer's wife,
+Who cut off their tails with a carving knife;
+Did ever you hear such a thing in your life?
+Three blind mice.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DICKORY DOCK]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Hickory, dickory dock!
+The mouse ran up the clock;
+The clock struck one,
+The mouse ran down,
+Hickory, dickory dock!]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ye FROG'S WOOING]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1.
+
+It was the frog lived in the well,
+Heigh-ho! says Rowley;
+And the merry mouse under the mill,
+With a Rowley, Powley, Gammon, and Spinach,
+Heigh-ho! says Anthony Rowley.]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+2.
+
+The frog he would a-wooing ride, Heigh-ho, &c.
+Sword and buckler at his side, With a, &c.
+
+3.
+
+When upon his high horse set, Heigh-ho, &c.
+His boots they shone as black as jet, With a, &c.
+
+4.
+
+When he came to the merry mill-pin, Heigh-ho, &c.
+"Lady Mouse, are you within?" With a, &c.
+
+5.
+
+Then came out the dusty mouse, Heigh-ho, &c.
+"I am the lady of this house," With a, &c.
+
+6.
+
+"Hast thou any mind of me?" Heigh-ho, &c.
+"I have e'en great mind of thee," With a, &c.
+
+7.
+
+"Who shall this marriage make?" Heigh-ho, &c.
+"Our lord, which is the rat," With a, &c.
+
+8.
+
+"What shall we have to our supper?" Heigh-ho, &c.
+"Three beans in a pound of butter," With a, &c.
+
+9.
+
+But when the supper they were at, Heigh-ho, &c.
+The frog, the mouse, and e'en the rat, With a, &c.
+
+10.
+
+Then came in Tib, our cat, Heigh-ho, &c.
+And caught the mouse e'en by the back, With a, &c.
+
+11.
+
+Then did they separate, Heigh-ho, &c.
+The frog leaped on the floor so flat, With a, &c.
+
+12.
+
+Then came in Dick, our drake, Heigh-ho, &c.
+And drew the frog e'en to the lake, With a, &c.
+
+13.
+
+The rat he ran up the wall, Heigh-ho, &c.
+And so the company parted all, With a, &c.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ye FROG & Ye CROW]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. A jolly fat frog lived in the river swim, O!
+   A comely black crow lived on the river brim, O!
+   "Come on shore, come on shore,"
+   Said the crow to the frog, and then, O!
+   "No, you'll bite me, no, you'll bite me,"
+   Said the frog to the crow again, O!]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+2. "O! there is sweet music on yonder green hill, O!
+   And you shall be a dancer, a dancer in yellow,
+   All in yellow, all in yellow."
+   Said the crow to the frog, and then, O!
+   "All in yellow, all in yellow,"
+   Said the frog to the crow again, O!
+
+3. "Farewell, ye little fishes, that in the river swim, O!
+   I'm going to be a dancer, a dancer in yellow."
+   "O beware! O beware!"
+   Said the fish to the frog, and then, O!
+   "I'll take care, I'll take care,"
+   Said the frog to the fish again, O!
+
+4. The frog began a swimming, a swimming to land, O!
+   And the crow began jumping to give him his hand, O!
+   "Sir, you're welcome, Sir, you're welcome,"
+   Said the crow to the frog, and then, O!
+   "Sir, I thank you, Sir, I thank you."
+   Said the frog to the crow, again, O!
+
+5. "But where is the sweet music on yonder green hill, O?
+   And where are all the dancers, the dancers in yellow?
+   All in yellow, all in yellow?"
+   Said the frog to the crow, and then, O!
+   "Sir, they're here, Sir, they're here."
+   Said the crow to the frog--[A]
+
+[Footnote A: Here the crow swallows the frog.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MRS. BOND]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. "Oh, what have you got for dinner, Mrs. Bond?"
+   "There's beef in the larder, and ducks in the pond;"
+   "Dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, come to be killed,
+   For you must be stuffed, and my customers filled!"]
+
+2. "John Ostler, go fetch me a duckling or two,
+   John Ostler go fetch me a duckling or two;
+   Cry dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, come and be killed,
+   For you must be stuffed, and my customers filled!"
+
+3. "I have been to the ducks that are swimming in the pond,
+   And they won't come to be killed, Mrs. Bond;
+   I cried dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, come and be killed,
+   For you must be stuffed, and the customers filled!"
+
+4. Mrs. Bond she went down to the pond in a rage,
+   With plenty of onions, and plenty of sage;
+   She cried, "Come, little wag-tails, come, and be killed.
+   For you shall be stuffed, and my customers filled!"
+
+[Illustration: MRS. BOND]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: XMAS DAY IN Ye MORNING]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. Dame, get up and bake your pies,
+   Bake your pies, bake your pies;
+   Dame, get up and bake your pies,
+     On Christmas-day in the morning.
+
+2. Dame, what makes your maidens lie,
+   Maidens lie, maidens lie?
+   Dame, what makes your maidens lie,
+     On Christmas-day in the morning?]
+
+3. Dame, what makes your ducks to die,
+   Ducks to die, ducks to die?
+   Dame, what makes your ducks to die,
+     On Christmas-day in the morning?
+
+4. Their wings are cut, they cannot fly,
+   Cannot fly, cannot fly;
+   Their wings are cut, they cannot fly,
+     On Christmas-day in the morning.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: LITTLE IACK HORNER]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,
+Eating a Christmas pie;
+He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,
+And said, "What a good boy am I!"]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: KING ARTHUR]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. When good King Arthur ruled this land,
+     He was a goodly king--
+   He stole three pecks of barley-meal,
+     To make a bag pudding.]
+
+2. A bag pudding the Queen did make,
+     And stuffed it well with plums,
+   And in it put great lumps of fat
+     As big as my two thumbs.
+
+3. The King and Queen did eat thereof,
+     And noblemen beside,
+   And what they could not eat that night
+     The Queen next morning fried.
+
+[Illustration: Ye GOOD KING ARTHUR]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ye JOLLY MILLER]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+There was a jolly miller once
+Lived on the river Dee;
+He worked and sang from morn till night,
+No lark more blithe than he.
+And this the burden of his song
+For ever used to be,
+"I care for nobody, no, not I,
+And nobody cares for me."]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ye SONG of SIXPENCE]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket fall of rye;
+   Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie;
+   When the pie was open the birds began to sing,
+   Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?]
+
+2. The king was in his counting-house counting out his money;
+   The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey;
+   The maid was in the garden hanging out her clothes,
+   When up came a blackbird and pecked off her nose.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: BO-PEEP]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. Little Bo-Peep, she lost her sheep,
+     And didn't know where to find them;
+   Let them alone, they'll all come home
+     And bring their tails behind them.]
+
+2. Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
+     And dreamt she heard them bleating;
+   But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
+     For they were still a-fleeting.
+
+3. Then up she took her little crook,
+     Determined for to find them,
+   She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed
+     For they'd left their tails behind them.
+
+4. It happened one day as Bo-Peep did stray
+     Into a meadow hard by,
+   There she espied their tails side by side,
+     All hung on a tree to dry.
+
+5. She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
+     Then went o'er hill and dale,
+   And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
+     To tack to each sheep its tail.
+
+[Illustration: LITTLE BO-PEEP]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: BAA! BAA! BLACK SHEEP]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+"Baa! Baa! Black sheep, have you any wool?"
+"Yes, marry, have I, three bags full;
+One for my master, and one for my dame,
+But none for the little boy that lives down the lane!"]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: TOM, THE PIPER'S SON]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
+Stole a pig and away did run;
+The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
+And Tom went roaring down the street.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THERE WAS A LADY LOVED A SWINE]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. There was a lady loved a swine,
+     "Honey!" said she;
+   "Pig-hog, wilt thou be mine?"
+     "Hunc!" said he.
+
+2. "I'll build thee a silver sty,
+     Honey!" said she;
+   "And in it thou shalt lie!"
+     "Hunc!" said he.]
+
+3. "Pinned with a silver pin,
+     Honey!" said she;
+   "That thou mayest go out and in,"
+     "Hunc!" said he.
+
+4. "Will thou have me now,
+     Honey?" said she;
+   "Speak, or my heart will break,"
+     "Hunc!" said he.
+
+[Illustration: THERE WAS A LADY LOVED A SWINE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OVER THE HILLS & FAR AWAY]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. Tom he was a piper's son,
+   He learnt to play when he was young;
+   But all the tunes that he could play
+   Was "Over the hills and far away."
+     Over the hills and a great way off,
+     The wind shall blow my top-knot off.]
+
+2. Tom with his pipe made such a noise
+   That he pleased both the girls and boys,
+   And they stopped to hear him play,
+   "Over the hills and far away."
+     Over the hills, &c.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. 'Twas on a merry time,
+     When Jenny Wren was young,
+   So neatly as she danced,
+     And so sweetly as she sung,
+   Robin Redbreast lost his heart,
+     He was a gallant bird,
+   He doffed his cap to Jenny Wren,
+     Requesting to be heard.
+
+2. "My dearest Jenny Wren,
+     If you will but be mine,
+   You shall dine on cherry pie,
+     And drink nice currant wine;
+   I'll dress you like a gold-finch,
+     Or like a peacock gay,
+   So if you'll have me, Jenny, dear,
+     Let us appoint the day."]
+
+3. Jenny blushed behind her fan
+     And thus declared her mind--
+   "So let it be to-morrow, Rob,
+     I'll take your offer kind;
+   Cherry pie is very good,
+     And so is currant wine,
+   But I will wear my plain brown gown,
+     And never dress too fine."
+
+4. Robin Redbreast got up early,
+     All at the break of day,
+   He flew to Jenny Wren's house,
+     And sang a roundelay;
+   He sang of Robin Redbreast,
+     And pretty Jenny Wren,
+   And when he came unto the end,
+     He then began again.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: I HAD A LITTLE NVT-TREE]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
+But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;
+The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me,
+And all for the sake of my little nut-tree.]
+
+[Illustration: I HAD A LITTLE NVT-TREE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DR. FAVSTVS]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Doctor Faustus was a good man,
+He whipt his scholars now and then;
+When he whipt he made them dance
+Out of England into France;
+Out of France into Spain,
+And then he whipt them back again.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THREE CHILDREN]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. Three children sliding on the ice,
+     All on a summer's day,
+   As it fell out, they all fell in,
+     The rest they ran away.]
+
+2. Now, had these children been at home,
+     Or sliding on dry ground,
+   Ten thousand pounds to one penny,
+     They had not all been drowned.
+
+3. You parents all that children have,
+     And you that have got none,
+   If you would have them safe abroad,
+     Pray keep them safe at home.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MY PRETTY MAID]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?
+   Where are you going to, my pretty maid?"
+   "I'm going a-milking, Sir," she said,
+   "Sir," she said, "Sir," she said,
+   "I'm going a-milking, Sir," she said.]
+
+2. "Shall I go with you, my pretty maid?"
+   "Yes, if you please, kind Sir," she said,
+   "Sir," she said, "Sir," she said,
+   "Yes, if you please, kind Sir," she said.
+
+3. "What is your fortune, my pretty maid?"
+   "My face is my fortune, Sir," she said,
+   "Sir," she said, "Sir," she said,
+   "My face is my fortune, Sir," she said.
+
+4. "Then I can't marry you, my pretty maid."
+   "Nobody asked you, Sir," she said,
+   "Sir," she said, "Sir," she said,
+   "Nobody asked you, Sir," she said.
+
+[Illustration: WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO MY PRETTY MAID?]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE PLOVGH BOY IN LVCK]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+1. My daddy is dead, but I can't tell you how;
+   He left me six horses to follow the plough;
+     With my whim wham waddle ho!
+     Strim stram straddle ho!
+     Bubble ho! pretty boy, over the brow.]
+
+2. I sold my six horses to buy me a cow;
+   And wasn't that a pretty thing to follow the plough?
+     With my, &c.
+
+3. I sold my cow to buy me a calf,
+   For I never made a bargain but I lost the best half.
+     With my, &c.
+
+4. I sold my calf to buy me a cat,
+   To sit down before the fire to warm her little back.
+     With my, &c.
+
+5. I sold my cat to buy me a mouse,
+   But she took fire in her tail and so burnt up my house.
+     With my, &c.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: WARM HANDS]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Warm hands, warm, thy men are gone to plough;
+If you want to warm your hands, warm your hands now.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JACK AND JILL]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Jack and Jill went up the hill
+To fetch a pail of water;
+Jack fell down and broke his crown,
+And Jill came tumbling after.]
+
+[Illustration: JACK & JILL.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DANCE A BABY]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Dance a baby diddy!
+What can mammy do wid'e?
+Sit in her lap,
+Give it some pap,
+And dance a baby diddy!]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HVSH-A-BY BABY]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Hush-a-by baby on the tree-top,
+When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
+When the bough breaks the cradle will fall--
+Down comes baby, cradle and all!]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: KING COLE]
+
+
+[Music:
+
+Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
+And a merry old soul was he;
+He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl,
+And he called for his fiddlers three.
+Ev'ry fiddler had a fiddle,
+And a very fine fiddle had he.
+
+Tweedle dee, tweedle dee, tweedle dee, tweedle dee,
+Tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers three,
+O there's none so rare as can compare
+With King Cole and his fiddlers three.]
+
+
+FINIS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: [back cover]]
+
+[Music:
+
+Hey diddle diddle! the cat and the fiddle,
+The cow skipt over the moon;
+The little dog laughed to see the fine sport,
+And the dish ran away with the spoon.]
+
+
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