Froggie Went a Courtin’

MOVIE NIGHT: Frog And Toads

 
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When Max’s older brother Jannus sends him on a mission to find frog’s eggs, 6-year-old Max sets out with his buddy Jesse on a journey through nature that’s filled with wonders and delightful songs in this engaging children’s adventure.

Such a sweet family nature movie, wished it was not English dubbed…

The Foolish Frog

Way down south in the yankety-yank,
A bull frog jumped from bank to bank,
Just because he’d nothing better for to do!

He stubbed his toe and fell in the water,
You could hear him yell for a mile and a quarter,
Just because he’d nothing better for to do!

Pete Seeger‘s story and book

This little frog has two eyes

Traditional Chinese Nursery Rhyme

This little frog has two eyes,
Four legs,
One mouth, no tail,
Says croak, croak and
Plops into the water.

These little frogs have four eyes,
Eight legs,
Two mouths, no tails,
Say croak, croak and

Five little speckled frogs

Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious grubs.
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four green speckled frogs.

…4…3…2…1

Campfire variant

Five little speckled frogs, sitting on a speckled log
Eating a most delicious fly (ya, ya, ya, ya, ya-ya)
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four little speckled frogs

…4…3…2…1

La Rana

Audio: Scout

Estaba sentada la rana
cantando debajo del agua,
cuando la rana salió a cantar
vino la mosca y la hizo callar.

La mosca, la rana,
la rana estaba sentada
cantando debajo del agua,
cuando la mosca salió a cantar
vino la araña y la hizo callar.

La araña, la mosca,
la mosca, la rana,
la rana estaba sentada
cantando debajo del agua,
cuando la araña salió a cantar
vino el ratón y la hizo callar.

El ratón, la araña,
la araña, la mosca,
la mosca, la rana,
la rana estaba sentada
cantando debajo del agua,
cuando el ratón salió a cantar
vino el gato y lo hizo callar.

Así, sucesivamente vas agregando:
el gato, el perro, el palo, el fuego, el agua, el hombre, la suegra.

Y para terminar:
cuando la suegra salió a cantar
ni el mismo diablo la hizo callar.

La Rana

“Cucú” is the sound of a frog. This song describes what a little frog sees from a pond. Additional verses may be added at any time to describe what is happening in the room in which the children are singing.

Spanish	English
Cucú, cucú cantaba la rana	Cucú, cucú sang the frog
Cucú, cucú debajo del agua,	Cucú, cucú under the water
Cucú, cucú pasó un caballero	Cucú, cucú a man walked by
Cucú, cucú con capa y sombrero	Cucú, cucú with coat and hat
Cucú, cucú paso una señora	Cucú, cucú a woman walked by
Cucú, cucú con traje de cola,	Cucú, cucú with a long dress
Cucú, cucú pasó un marinero,	Cucú, cucú a sailor walked by
Cucú, cucú vendiendo romero,	Cucú, cucú selling rosemary
Cucú, cucú le pidió un ramito,	Cucú, cucú the little frog asks for a sprig
Cucú, cucú no le quiso dar,	Cucú, cucú but he doesn’t give her any
Cucú, cucú y se echó a llorar.	Cucú, cucú so she starts to cryú

TRADITIONAL SONGS, RHYMES, FINGERPLAYS, AND GAMES IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH

Frog Fables and Parables

From allaboutfrogs:

• The Boys and the Frogs
  one mans fun may be another’s pain.
• Frog and Toad
  perception of beauty is subjective
• The Boiled Frog
  a parable about adaptation
• The Scorpion and the Frog
  a parable about a destructive nature
• The Quack Frog
  a frog proclaims to be a doctor.
• The Ass and the Frogs
  Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
• The Hares and the Frogs
  There is always someone worse off than yourself.
• The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk
  Choose your allies carefully
• The Frogs Desiring a King
  Better no rule than cruel rule.
• The Frogs and the Well
  Look before you leap.
• Frog in a Milk-Pail
  Never Give Up!
• The Ox and the Frog
  Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
• The Two Frogs
  A willful man will have his way to his own hurt.
• The Frog in the Shallow Well
  a Chinese fable about one’s place in the universe
• The Frog and the Crocodile
  beware of your enemies!
• The Frogs’ Complaint Against the Sun
  too much of a good thing?

Froggy Tales

More tales from Froggy:

Frog fiction at the Froggy Page

• Frog Fables, by Aesop
• The Frog Prince (version 1), by Grimm
• The Frog Prince (version 2), by Grimm
• The Frog Princess — with links to several other versions
• The Toad Princess, by Grimm
• The Leap-Frog, by Hans Christian Anderson
• The Two Frogs, a Japanese tale (illustrated)
• Why Frogs Croak, a Native American myth
• The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, by Beatrix Potter
• The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, by Padraic Colum
• The Frog and the Lizard, by Rosetta Baskerville

Frog fiction elsewhere on the net

• The World’s More Full Of Weeping, a toadly collection of fairy tales from Kyle Cassidy.
• The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
• The Frogs, by Aristophanes
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain (site includes teaching guides and related links)
• Teefr, a net.novel-in-progress by Edward Summer
• The Lilypad, at the Internet Public Library
• Frog Kings: Folktales about Slimy Suitors and Animal Brides, collected by D.L. Ashliman
• The Girl and the Toad — a story from Korea, at Whootie Owl’s Stories to Grow By
• Christopher Webtoe and the Great Pond — from bedtime-story.com
• Christopher Webtoe Hops in the Right Direction — another one from bedtime-story.com
• The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go — at Children’s Books Online
• Grandfather Frog Stays in the Smiling Pool, by Thornton W. Burgess — at Children’s Books Online
• The Fairy Frog, from Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
• The Book of Frogs and Mice
• The Annotated Frog King — at SurLaLune Fairy Tales
• The Tiger and the Frog — a Tibetan Folk Tale
• Bully and Bawly No-Tail, by Howard Roger Garis

Froggy Songs

More frog songs from Froggy:

Frog songs at the Froggy Page

• Bein’ Green
• The Battle Hymn of the Ranapublic
• I’m in Love With a Big Blue Frog
• Frogs at School, with sound and pictures!
• Kiss That Frog
• Hot Frogs on the Loose
• Amphibious Recollections
• Leap Frog
• More frog songs and rhymes

Frog songs elsewhere on the net

• Frogs, from the Muppet Frog Prince
• Spotted Frog
• Frog Went a Courtin’ (and more songs from Judy and David)
• NAAMP amphibian poetry collection
• Kermit the Frog songs collection at the Sesame Street Lyrics Archive