Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Frog, artist - Art Garfunkel. Album song The Animals' Christmas, in the genre
Date of issue: 22.11.1999
Record label: The Orchard
Song language: English
The Frog |
The frog hopped, silently, fearfully |
in out from the chill of night |
Covered with the shiny dew of morning |
Carefully, he came to cause no fright to the Son of God a-borning |
Since from his place upon the earth he could not see the manger |
Tho' shy, he leaped into the air to see the little stranger |
The beasts were outraged! |
Angry that a frog so impolite |
Would dare disturb the Holy Child’s dreaming |
«Get you far away and out of sight, |
You are ugly and blaspheming. |
And why do you not humbly bow, |
And what gift are you bringing?» |
The Frog then croaked, |
«I come to God with only my rough singing |
I came to sing for Jesus.» |
The animals laughed, «hahahaha» to think of such a joke |
That a simple frog would be so odd as to come to God to croak |
The animals laughed, «hahahahahaha» |
That a simple frog would be so odd as to come to God to croak |
Baby Jesus saw the frog and laughed with sheer delight |
To see him hopping high through the stable |
And Mary softly did him invite to sing the little boy’s first fable |
Light came down from heaven and around the frog was gleaming |
And like an Angel sent from God |
The lowly frog was singing |
And he sang of logs and polliwogs |
Of rafts and summer fishin; |
Of morning frogs and puppy dogs |
And places to go wishin' |
Of misty bogs and swimming togs |
and treasures laying deep. |
And when the last note died away |
The baby was asleep |
And from that day on the frog was drawn to live high in the towers |
Of pine and oak, no more to croak among the water flowers |
But a tree frog he would always be whose voice could shame the bird |
And they say that every Easter morn his voice can still be heard |