Little Brown Mouse
Words & music © 1999 Ginger Hulsopple This tune was inspired by an old favorite folksong called “Tumbalalaika” and is a story about a little slave girl who sings to the Master she is secretly in love with. Did he ever realize it? I don’t know – but I hope so…Chorus:
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Little brown Mouse, come and play me a tune
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Tell me of lovers who walk ‘neath the moon
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Bring out your harp and sing me a song,
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Little Mouse, from your heart, little one.
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1. Mischa was chieftain of a fierce warrior tribe
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Many his men on wild horses did ride
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Many the women who lay at his feet
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Close by his side sat a little Mouse sweet. ChorusDm Gm A7
2. Oh he was handsome, so cold and so proud
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Noble and peasant before him did bow
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His revels were legend, his conquests renowned
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Mouse only sang with her eyes on the ground. ChorusDm Gm A7
3. He loved his fine horses, his wine and his men
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Women there were his needs for to tend
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But his heart and his love he shared with none
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And Mouse sang her songs in the light of his sun. ChorusDm Gm A7
4. He fought and he reveled, this warrior so strong
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And Mouse stayed beside him to sing him her songs
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Never she spoke of the love that she felt
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But played him the music to make his heart melt. Chorus
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