"_A Frog he would a-wooing go_."--In answer to the inquiry of "B.G.J."
(in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of "'Heigh ho!' says Rowley," I
do not think it is older that thirty of thirty-five years, when Liston
sang an altered version of the very old song,--
"A frog, he would a-wooing ride,
With sword and buckler by his side,"
and instead of the usual chorus[5], inserted
"Heigho, says Rowley,"
as burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., Soho
Square, entitled "The Love-sick Frog," with an original air by C.E.H.,
Esq. (_qy._ Charles Edward Horn?), and an accompaniment by Thomas Cook.
The first verse is as follows:--
"A frog he would a-wooing go;
'Heigh ho!' says Rowley;
Whether his mother would let him or no,
With a rowly, powly,
Gammon and spinach,
'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley,"