{"id":115,"date":"2008-07-02T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T03:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-07-02T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T03:20:39","slug":"frog-in-the-well-followups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Frog in the Well followups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help people play <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/2008\/07\/01\/frog-in-the-well\/\">Frog in the Well<\/a> for themselves, here&#8217;s guitar tablature and sheet music:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/frog-in-the-well.pdf\">PDF version of Frog in the Well for printing out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/frog-in-the-well.sib\">Sibelius version of Frog in the Well so you can edit, improve and hack.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/earreverends.com\/notes\/king-kong-kitchie-kitchie-ki-me-o-frog-in-the-well\/#When:19:54:00Z\">Jay Fienberg tracked down a lot more info about the song<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI know this tune as \u201cKing Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O\u201d by Chubby Parker &amp; His Old Time Banjo, from Harry Smith&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anthology-American-Music-Edited-Harry\/dp\/B000001DJU\/earreve-20\">Anthology Of American Folk Music<\/a>. So, I was a little curious about some of the history around this tune, was poking around the web, and found that Roger McGuinn has a whole post on the history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7089\">King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cKing Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O\u201d is a version of the old English song \u201cFrog Went A-Courting.\u201d Its first known appearance is in Wedderburn\u2019s Complaynt of Scotland (1548) under the name \u201cThe frog came to the myl dur.\u201d There is a reference in the London Company of Stationer\u2019s Register of 1580 to \u201cA Moste Strange Weddinge of the Frogge and the Mouse.\u201d The oldest known musical version is in Thomas Ravenscroft\u2019s Melismata in 1611.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7089\">McGuinn&#8217;s post<\/a>, including the lyrics and an mp3 of a performance of the song by McGuinn himself, I think.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For people who aren&#8217;t going to dowload the tablature, here&#8217;s a quick look at it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/frog-in-the-well.png\n\" alt=\"Frog in the Well sheet music and guitar tab\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help people play Frog in the Well for themselves, here&#8217;s guitar tablature and sheet music: PDF version of Frog in the Well for printing out Sibelius version of Frog in the Well so you can edit, improve and hack. Jay Fienberg tracked down a lot more info about the song: I know this tune [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tablature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}