Comments on: Happy Saint Stephen’s Day

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:16:53 +0000

If you’d like to share your photo with us, I’d be happy to post it. It sounds lovely!

-Mama Lisa

By: MARGUERITE

MARGUERITE — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:10:50 +0000

I should love to find out the remaining words to Little Dame Trump. I have a wonderful family history photograph from 1898 in which a group of school children are performing actions to the song and all pointing to the “sly little corner”. For completeness it would be good to know the words to the song and possibly where it comes from. Thanks.

By: Ed Gawlinski

Ed Gawlinski — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:14:13 +0000

I found four additional verses to The Wren Song

The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,
Saint Stephen’s Day was caught in the firs;
Although he was little, his honor was great,
Jump up, me lads, and give us a treat!

We followed the wren three miles or more,
Three miles or more, three miles or more,
Through hedges and ditches and heaps of snow,
At six o’clock in the moring.

Rolley, Rolley, where’s your nest?
It’s in the bush that I love best,
It’s in the bush, the holly tree,
Where all the boys do follow me.

As I went out to hunt and all,
I met a wren upon the wall,
Up with me wattle and gave him a fall,
And brought him here to show you all.

I have a little box under me arm,
A tuppence or penny’l do it no harm,
For we are the boys that came your way
To bring in the wren on Saint Stephen’s Day!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:56:49 +0000

I’m not familiar with those and I couldn’t find them in my books. Does anyone else know them?

-Mama Lisa

By: Brenda Taylor

Brenda Taylor — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:26:40 +0000

Do you know the words to the song
“A little Brown Baby round and wee”
other words in the song are: “and he grew and he grew”
until he fell right down to the ground.
It is a song about an acorn growing up and falling from his oak tree.

Also:
The words of “Little Dame Trump with her Little Straw Broom”
One Morning was sweeping her little bedroom
When casting her little grey eyes to the ground,
In a sly little corner a penny she found.
(There are more verses to this as well.)