'A Cricket & An Owl'

A Canticle of Lord Blumenfeld

oh i wuz crickits an sawd my fiddul

fiddlee dee fiddlee aye

hay diddl diddl oh

i wuz crickits an sawd my fiddul owl

the luvlorn day

oh. i wuz crickits ansawd my fiddul

i jigged an sawd an sawd

an jigged owl the luvlorn day, oh. ow comes

i did i'm sure i can not say, oh, i'm sure i cannot say

i jiggd when i sawd,& hoppd when i jiggd

jiggd an sawd

an hoppd, oh.

I wuz an owl that swallowed iz fiddul

I swallowed it straight down, oh.

Fiddul an Crickit I swallowed them down

I swallowedThem all down, oh.

Ow comes I did it, owCome theys gone

I knows the reezin why, oh.

I knows the reezin, I knows the reezin

I knows the reezin why, oh

Composed in an English hospital in 1655 by Lord Barry Blumenfeld

(“Crackbrain Barry”) of Kent

Copyright 1788 by the Estate of Lord Blumenfeld