My Love Is Like A Red Red Frog

waltz

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on November 7th 2004 by snowyowl.

This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.

Also known as My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose, My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose, My Luv's Like A Red, Red Rose, My Luve Is Like A Red, Red Rose.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Another Measure: Scottish Country Dance Music From The 1950's, Volume 2 by Adam Rennie And His Scottish Country Dance Quartet
Celtic Heart by Marcille Wallis
Collectors' Items by Duncan Dyker And Friends
Dookin' by Battlefield Band
The Clear Stream - Guitar Music From Scotland And Beyond by Various Artists
The Lightning Fields by Robin Bullock
The Sky Didn't Fall by Kathryn Tickell And Corrina Hewat

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My Love Is Like A Red Red Frog sheetmusic

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Yes this is really the title.I wonder how you would get a red red frog, other than run over one or put it through the blender :-)

# Posted on November 7th 2004 by snowyowl

My Love Is Like A Red Red Frog (waltz)

There is indeed a species of frog that is red. I saw a photo of one on tv fairly recently, but I can't remember the name.

Trevor

# Posted on November 7th 2004 by lazyhound

Trevor, aren't red frogs posionous? If so then your love is like a poisonous frog?

# Posted on November 7th 2004 by snowyowl

My Love Is Like A Red Red Frog (waltz)

I expect you're right about them being poisonous. The red coloration would be a vivid warning to predators.
Trevor

# Posted on November 7th 2004 by lazyhound

You sure it's not my love is like a red rose?

# Posted on November 8th 2004 by Moongirl

..."my love is like a French Communist"? Cool!

# Posted on November 8th 2004 by Conán McDonnell

yes I'm sure it's NOT my love is like a red red rose!

# Posted on November 8th 2004 by snowyowl

Red Frogs - like poison arrow frogs. They live in South America. They have poison skin - if you touch them you die. South American Indians cook them and tip their arrows in the poisonous goo. But I don't think "My Love is like a South American poison arrow frog with toxic red skin" has such a good ring to it.. :o)

# Posted on November 8th 2004 by jakki S

I was just wondering, where did you hear that tune? There is no mention of any recordings... Do you know where it comes from??

# Posted on November 13th 2004 by Madflo

Rabbie Burns - Rose!

This most definitely is the tune to "My Love Is Like A Red, Red ROSE", by Robert Burns, and recorded mainly by Scottish "tartan/shortbread tin" singers such as Moira Anderson or Kenneth McKellar. It would be regarded as very hackneyed in Scotland's traditional music circles [ maybe even "daggy" ], but is a beautiful song when sung by someone like Rod Paterson or Sheena Wellington.
Was "moongirl" really the only one to spot this?
The high "b" note is an octave too high.
Madflo - if you really want me to track down some recordings of the song for you, just ask. There is a 10 CD complete set of all the songs of Burns which was released last year. These recordings were made by some of our finest traditional singers and are "folk" arrangements. You can obtain these CDs singly, you don't have to buy the whole set. I'm pretty sure that Rod Paterson would be the one who sings this song, and he does it very well too. Another singer who recorded it was Jean Redpath.

# Posted on November 14th 2004 by Kenny

Title change please

and "snowyowl" - please do us all a favour and give the air it's correct title. Thank you.

# Posted on November 14th 2004 by Kenny

Red Red Rose

Great tune. The angels use it with "Si John Fenwick's the flower amang them aa'" and a French waltz whose name I can't remember but which has a rose connection for the Rozsa waltz.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North

# Posted on November 15th 2004 by noelbats

Not Rod Paterson

Madflo - I remembered that there are 2 tunes to this song, and Rod Paterson sings the older one which is not the tune snowyowl has posted, so you might not want his version, even though for my money, it's the best I've heard. The CD set I mentioned is on the Linn records label - 12 CDs, 368 songs.
snowyowl - would you please change the title? Although he wrote about things like haggis, a louse, a mouse, and did on occasion mention "a puddock", Scotland's national poet never wrote any song or tune called "My Love Is Like A Red, Red FROG".

# Posted on November 15th 2004 by Kenny

Older version

I know and play the older version which I'll post tomorrow. There is also a strahspey version of this(older version) by Niel Gow called Major Graham. I'm not sure if it's already on the database. If not, I'll post it too.

# Posted on November 15th 2004 by Johannes J

I've posted Major Graham as promised. The tune is so similar to the original air of "My love is like a red red rose" that I don't see the need to post both. Check it out at you leisure.

Snowy Owl, you seem to really believe that you have the correct title here but I can assure you that that Moongirl and Kenny are absolutely spot on when they give it as "My love is like a red red *rose*".

# Posted on November 17th 2004 by Johannes J

I think "frog" is much more fitting.

# Posted on May 31st 2006 by Joe CSS

Loves that are like red red frogs

In Nottingham, that's what love is like (red frog, my love is like a red):
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ef/music/tunes/PIndexwaltzes.htm

Maybe that's where Snowy got the title. Maybe lovers have exceptionally strong poison antibodies in Nottingham, and maybe frogs are held in higher esteem than roses there. When's the last time you saw a highway bypass built for a rose?

# Posted on May 31st 2006 by joesmith