Name: Frog Kissin'
Channel: words and music Buddy Kalb
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Folk song by Buddy Kalb with a new arrangement.

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Brobdingnagian Bards

The Original Celtic Renaissance duo from Austin, TX! Called Masters of Traditional Folk by The Austin Chronicle, Marc Gunn and Andrew McKee join the autoharp, r

We are the Brobdingnagian Bards (pronounced brAHb'ding-näg-EE-en). We perform a unique style of Celtic folk music that we like to call "a Renaissance in Celtic music" or "The Original Celtic Renaissance. Ask our fans though, and they'll tell you our music is just plain "fun!" With six studio albums completed in just five years, combined with ten other compilations, singles and EPs, we've been called one of the most-productive Celtic groups around. But we just love playing the music.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Cover Songs

Charts

Peak #195

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

words and music Buddy Kalb

Rights

Gunn-McKee

Uploaded

July 29, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:01

Story behind the song

Recorded by Chet Atkins originally. I heard a version by Ed Kilbourne. It was in 4/4 time and sounded nothing like our version. Our is in 3/4 time. That was the only way I could make it sound like a song that belonged at a Renaissance Festival.

Lyrics

Do you remember in the fairy tale, how the wicked witches spell
Turned the handsome prince to a toad?
By the power of a potion, she handed him the notion
He was lower than the dirt in the road.
And though she left him green and warted, her evil plans were thwarted
Their chanced to happen by a young miss
Who inspite of his complexion, offered him affection
And broke the wicked curse with her kiss

    So if you've never been frog kissing
    Then you don't know what you've been missin',
    There's a wealth of opportunity under each and every log.
    And if you've never been charm-breakin',
    Then you've never been handsome prince makin'.
    You've got to slow down, turn around, bend down,
    Kiss you a frog!

Once upon a time ago, I was down and feelin' low
Like a lonely frog in a pond
My life was just a joke, and I was just about to croak
Cuz I'd be zapped by life's wicked wand.
But in the depths of my depression, there came a true expression
Of love from a person so sweet.
She gave me warm fuzzy feelings, feelings that were healin'
And she knocked me off my little webbed feet.

There's a happy-ever-after-land, deep in the heart of man
Where a prince and princess abides.
But all we get are glimpses, of the happy prince or princess
'Cauce they're covered with a green warty hide.
Though they're full of life's potential, they're lacking one essential
To enable them to shine like a star.
That's a handsome guy or missus, to smother them with kisses
And love them just the way that they are.

    That's the secret of frog kissing
    You can do it too if you'll just listen
    There's a wealth of opportunity under each and every log.
    That's the secret of charm-breakin',
    That's the secret of handsome prince makin'.
    You've got to slow down, turn around, bend down,
    Kiss you a...
    You've got to slow down, turn around, bend down,
    Kiss you a...
    You've got to slow down, turn around, bend down,
    Kiss you a frog!