Here's To Cheshire - Here's To Cheese (Froggy) chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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Uh, hey let me sing you
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another song
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that you may have heard in
a different way.
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Over in England again there was a
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farmer.
He had a big bushy beard
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an d a bald head
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and he raised apples and pear trees
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and he loved to sing
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as he was striding up and down
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between his rows of fruit trees
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an d he'd made up his own
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version of an old song.
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You've probably heard Old
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Froggy went according,
but he's, this is a different way,
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he made up some new words to it.
Oh, there was a little frog
lived in a well,
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ding -dang -dong go the wedding bells,
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and a pretty little mouse
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lived under a mill,
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ding -dang -dong go
the wedding bells.
Here's to Cheshire,
here's to cheese,
here's to the pears and the apple trees,
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and here's to the
I'm going move this mic a little forward
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so the mic won't cut me right in
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half up there.
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Then the people up in the balcony
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don't have to see
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me dodging that.
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Now, Froggy went a -courtin'
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and he did ride.
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Ding, dang, dong, go the wedding bells.
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Now, Miss Mouse, you must decide.
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Ding, dang, dong,
go the wedding bells.
Here's to Cheshire,
here's to cheese,
here's to the pears and the apple trees,
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and here's to the lovely strawberries.
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Ding, dang, dong, go the wedding bells.
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I'll have to ask my Uncle Rat.
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G 
Ding, dang, dong, go the wedding bells.
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and see what he does say to that.
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Ding, dang,
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dong go the wedding bells.
Here's to Cheshire,
here's to cheese,
here's to the pears and the apple trees,
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and here's to the lovely strawberries.
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Ding, dang,
dong go the wedding bells.
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Well, Uncle Rat says,
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I'm much afraid.
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Ding, dang, dong, go the wedding bells.
If you don't marry Froggy,
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you're going to die an old maid.
Ding, dang,
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dong, go the wedding bells.
Here's to Cheshire,
here's to cheese.
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Here's to the pears and the
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apple trees.
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And here's to the lovely
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strawberries.
Well, open the oysters,
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spill the champagne
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Ding -dang -dong, go
the wedding bells
Never will there be such a feast
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again
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Ding -dang -dong, go the
wedding bells
Here's to Cheshire, here's to cheese
Here's to the pears and the apple trees
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And here's to the lovely strawberries
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Ding, dang, dong, go the wedding bells
G 
But as they were going it hot and strong
Ding, dang,
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dong, go the wedding bells
The good grey cat came
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prowling along
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Ding, dong, go the wedding bells
Here's to Cheshire,
here's to cheese
Here's to the pears and the apple trees
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G 
An d here's to the lovely strawberries
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Ding, dang, dong,
go the wedding bells
She sprang through the window
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right out of the yard
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Ding, dang, dong, go the wedding bells
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She didn't bring no invitation card
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Ding, dong, go the wedding bells
Here's to Cheshire, here's
to cheese
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Here's to the pears and the apple trees
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An d here's to the lovely strawberries
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Ding, dong go the wedding bells
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Now Uncle Rat like a hero stood
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Ding, dang, dong go the wedding bells
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Puss wet her whiskers in his blood
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Ding, dong go the wedding bells
Here's to Cheshire, here's to cheese
Here's to the pears and the apple trees,
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an d here's to the lovely strawberries.
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Ding -dang -dong
go the wedding bells.
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Now Miss Mousy made a dive for a crack.
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Ding -dang -dong go the wedding
bells.
Puss made a pounce and he broke
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her back.
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Ding -dang -dong go
the wedding bells.
Here's to Cheshire,
here's to cheese,
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here's to the pears and the apple trees,
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and here's to the lovely strawberries.
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Dink and donk go the rainbows.
Now where was the valiant
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frog the while?
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Dink and donk go the rainbows.
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He just about broke the four -minute mile.
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Ding, dang, dong go the wedding bells
Here's to Chester, here's to Cheeks
Here's to the pears and the apple tree
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And here's to the lovely strawberries
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Ding, dong go the wedding bells
G 
Now this is the end of him and her
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Ding, dong go the wedding
bells
There won't be no tadpoles
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covered in fur.
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Ring -a -ling -a -ling -a -ling -ling -a
-ling -bells.
Here's to Cheshire,
here's to cheese,
Here's to the lark and the apple tree,
And here's to the lovely
strawberries.
Ring -a -ling -a -ling -a -ling -a -a -bells.
Thank you. Thank you.