DESCRIPTION:
score available from
http://dwsolo.load.cd/sheetmusic/sm-85127_arthropoduet__a_centipede_was_happy_quite_for_two_voices_a_cappella.html
(versions available for two low voices and for two medium voices)
Music composed and performed by David W Solomons (multitrack - dwschorale)
Poem anon (with additional verse by Dave Dunning).
Cartoons by Mark Haviland
Duet on the anonymous poem about a centipede - she was quite happy with her hundred legs until a frog asked her to think about which leg comes after

which...
The sound sample is sung by the composer (in B flat).
The zip file contains a version in B flat and also one in D for higher voices.
It can be sung by two solo voices or by a choir of any kind


A centipede was happy quite,
until a frog in fun said:
"Pray tell which leg comes after which?"
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in a ditch,
Considering how to run.


She stopped and thought
and mystified
and lifted one leg slowly
put right foot first
and found it left
her left leg was wrong
right side
She lay distracted in a ditch,
Considering how to run.

She stopped and
thought
and mystified
and lifted one
leg slowly
put right foot
first
and found it left
her left leg was wrong side
right side

She lay distracted
in a ditch,
Considering
how to run.