WHEN THAT I WAS A LITTLE TINY BOY



When that I was a little tiny boy

With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain

A foolish thing was but a toy

For the rain it raineth ev'ry day



chorus: With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain

For the rain it raineth ev'ry day.



But when I came to man's estate

With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain

'Gainst thieves and knaves men shut their gate,

For the rain it raineth ev'ry day.



But when I came, alas!, to wive

With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain

By swaggering never could I thrive,

For the rain it raineth ev'ry day.

A great while ago the world begun

With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain

But that's all one, our play is done

And we'll strive to please you every day.



Note: Sung in the epilogue of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Tune

contemporaneous with words; ca 1550. RG

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