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:
 Dm                                               A7
Little brown Mouse, come and play me a tune
                                     Dm
Tell me of lovers who walk ‘neath the moon
                                          Gm
Bring out your harp and sing me a song,
           Dm                         A7            Dm
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
 Dm                               Gm          Dm
Many the women who lay at his feet
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Close by his side sat a little Mouse sweet.     Chorus

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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.    Chorus

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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.     Chorus

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4.  He fought and he reveled, this warrior so strong
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And Mouse stayed beside him to sing him her songs
Dm                                   Gm               Dm
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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