Lyrics
(Folk song)
Tom, Tom the piper’s son,
He learned to play when he was young,
And all the tune that he could play
Was “over the hills and far away.”
Tom with his pipe made such a noise,
That he pleased both the girls and boys,
They all stopped to hear him play,
“Over the hills and far away.”
Tom with his pipe did play with such skill
That those who heard him could never keep still;
As soon as he played they began for to dance,
Even the pigs on their hind legs would after him prance.
See also
- Subjects: nursery rhymes / pipers / family
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: major
- Source: The Child’s Own Music Book, The Largest Collection of Mothers’ and Children’s Songs, Musical Games and Piano Music Ever Published, Covering Completely All Phases of Child Life, Wier, 1918
- Different tune: Twenty-Four Robbers
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
