{"id":2587,"date":"2004-12-01T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:02:52","slug":"froggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Froggy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There once was a &#8216;puter geek whose name was Jack<br>He lived by himself in a little shack<br>He worked for A Consulting firm as you shall learn<br>And the Accenture was always on what he could earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>Oh Jack, why don&#8217;t you marry?<br>Oh, Jack, why don&#8217;t you live?<br>Oh Jack, why don&#8217;t you marry?<br>There is so much more that you could give.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/froggy2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Now as he wandered down the road late one night<br>He heard a kind of scuttling noise beneath a log<br>He started to investigate but had a fright<br>For he heard the sound of singing from a little frog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, Jack won&#8217;t you marry me I&#8217;ll be your bride.<br>You&#8217;ll lack for nothing ever again I promise you.<br>For I can give you all you want and more beside<br>If you take me for yourself then you will know that&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Jack he listened carefully out of respect<br>To the poor little froggy as she raised her head.<br>He told her that he needed much more time to reflect,<br>For he wanted to write code much more than to be wed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh Jack if you kiss me I shall be your slave,<br>For underneath this leather skin a princess lies.<br>I&#8217;ll wash and cook and iron for you right to your grave,<br>And I&#8217;ll always do my best for you in every wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By now Jack had lost interest in all of this.<br>He told the poor froggy it was time to go.<br>His head was full of binary, no time to kiss,<br>And the coding was important as she ought to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Jack he just set off down the road once more,<br>But soon he turned around again to pick her up,<br>And as he stooped to lift her up her hopes did soar,<br>But he put her in his pocket and he zipped it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now poor little froggy she was sore perplexed.<br>She did not understand at all so called his name:<br>Oh Jack will you tell me what will happen next?<br>You did not want to marry me, so what&#8217;s the game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Jack knew for sure a wife was not for him<br>So he excused himself to her with: I&#8217;m no fool.<br>A man like me likes coding and to keep himself in trim,<br>But a talking frog is something else, it&#8217;s very cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With thanks to Andrew North<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Froggy|https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Froggy_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChoralWiki <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/mof_froggy2.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copyright of the music is held by&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 2004)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/noteworthycomposer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3\/ogg were produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>&nbsp;software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a &#8216;puter geek whose name was JackHe lived by himself in a little shackHe worked for A Consulting firm as you shall learnAnd the Accenture was always on what he could earn. 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