Sometimes they get married and everything's fine. Sometimes they get married but then eaten by a fish or a heron or a cat. Sometimes they get eaten in the sixth verse for no real reason. It's like a probability distribution of all the different ways the lives of the frog and mouse could end up. They probably got eaten, but I prefer the versions where they don't. Cause having them get eaten just seems like
Especially when it happens in the sixth verse.
(1) Thu May 05 2005 13:20 PST Damn frogs, stealing our women!:
Every since I was very young I've been fascinated with the story of the
frog who would a-wooing go. There are so many variants of the song, but they're all clearly about the same frog and mouse.
I'm tired of singing this song to you, mm-hmm
I'm tired of singing this song to you, mm-hmm
I'm tired of singing this song to you
They all got eaten by a bird, and away it flew
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, the end