Tweedledum and Tweedledee (poem into song) Alice through the Looking Glass

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Song: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Lyrics: Lewis Carroll & John Byrom (possibly also Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope)
Music: AI

(verse)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

(chorus)
Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny,
Others aver, that he to Handel,
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle,

Strange all this Difference should be,
Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee.

(verse)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

(chorus)
Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny,
Others aver, that he to Handel,
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle,

Strange all this Difference should be,
Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee.

(verse)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

(chorus)
Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny,
Others aver, that he to Handel,
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle,

Strange all this Difference should be,
Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee.

(verse)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

(chorus)
Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny,
Others aver, that he to Handel,
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle,

Strange all this Difference should be,
Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee.

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