To most people, I would imagine that a pollywog is a tadpole. When I was a little, some mornings my mom would wake me up by singing “The Pollywog Song.”
Good morning little Pollywog!
In three more days, you’ll be a frog!
Then you can leap from log to log,
You funny, little Pollywog!
Those who know me best know that I hate to get out of bed. I love my sleep. I’m not apologizing for it, it’s who I am. Even back then at the ripe old age of 3-5 years, this was the case. Some days I would demand, “Mom sing the song! I’m not getting up til you sing the song!” She would sing it, and I would drag my little butt out of bed. Then I would ask her to sing the song to my parakeet, Pepper and my guinea pig, Arnold. I was a precocious little bugger, to put it nicely. I wish you could hear it, because the song is really sweet. To me it is, anyway.
Some days I sing the song to my aging Jack Russel Terrier. She loves the bed more than I do. I’ve been even known to sing the song to my husband, on the rare (I mean rare) occasion that I get up before he does. A Pollywog is anything I think is cute, and has commanded my heart at that very moment. It is a term of affection. I generally want to kiss Pollywogs all over their sweet faces and sing to them, ’cause that’s how I roll. I hope to some day soon have another Pollywog or two to add to my home. In my book, there’s always time for a song and you can’t give too many kisses.
You used to sing me this song in the dorm and now I sing it to my pollywog.
Thanks for commenting, Tricia! You are the very first person to comment on my blog! The Pollywog song in the dorm! It’s a good thing that you were my roommate and not someone else who would’ve headed for the hills and thought I was crazy!
Adam sings me the Pollywog song, too. It is close to my heart…as are your pollywogs. I am crying while typing…so I will stop typing now.
How cute! I didn’t know that Adam sings to you. Very sweet.
Lacie,
in the world, and they are so lucky to have such a doting Aunt Lacie that spoils them rotten. 
Love ya. xoxoxox
That song will forever be embedded in my head… Aunt Robin sang it to us growing up and now I sing it to my little pollywogs… I don’t even know what to say, Gavin is your blog male model (with Annie) and Stella your feature this month… I am so blessed with the 2 most perfect children (they get their looks from me)
AHHHHHHH!!! U Kids make me CRY :0) Who would ever imagine that ALL of U would remember the Little POLLYWOG song. I think it was a song from MY Kindergarten teacher. It made an impression on me…so I passed it along. NEVER dreaming it would be remembered and passed on to the NEXT generation of POLLYWOGS!!!
It is in these moments I feel sooooooo Blessed to have the GREATEST KIDS on earth.
You all own my HEART FOREVER,
Love You MOM
So, my mom sang “Good morning little pollywog” to me and her mom sang it to her. I sang it to my kids and grandkids. The only difference is that we sang “in three short months you’ll be a frog”
Wish I knew where it originated from. How cool that there are others who remember this song. Let’s face it, it’s not “twinkle, twinkle little star.”
My Mom used to sing this song to my sisters and me to wake us up each morning before school. I could never remember the whole song–only the first line and part of the second. I vaguely remember the tune, but what I remember seems to jibe with the lines of the song. I always wondered where the song came from–I was a child of the 50′s and my Mom was born in the early 1920′s! Does anyone have anymore info about it? Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Also, I remember some of the lines being a little different than shown above:
Good morning little Pollywog!
How can you see in such a fog?
In three more days, you’ll be a frog!
No more you’ll be a pollywog!
I had no idea that my grandfather didn’t make this song up! My dad sang it to me when I was little but he passed away and my aunts and uncles only know one verse! YAY! I now know two more!