Encourage the children to show the difference between the quality of their jumps for each type of frog.

Ella Mary Leather, Folk-Lore of Herefordshire (1912/republished 1970), pp.209–210, "The Frog and the Mouse" (2 texts) B. A. Botkin, A Treasury of Southern Folklore (1949; reprinted 1977), p.722, "Frog Went a-Courting" (1 text, 1 tune) Eloise Hubbard Linscott, Folk Songs of Old New England (1939), pp.199–202, "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go" (1 text, 1 tune) Adaptation of subject matter to a different tune and meter by John McCutcheon on his children's album Howjadoo Danny Tanner briefly sings the song while giving his oldest daughter D.J. guitar lessons in the sitcom Full House, in the episode "The Seven Month Inch (Part 2)".

Brothers Four: "Frogg" (Columbia Records single, 1961), US #32; also sequel, "Frogg No. 2" on LP The Brothers Four Song Book (Columbia, 1961)

Marcia and Jon Pankake, A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book (1988), pp.48–49, "Froggie Went a-Courting" (1 text) Thomas Raith hums the song during a standoff with the Denarians in Jim Butcher's Small Favor, a novel of the Dresden Files.

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Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland (1933), 40, "The First Come in it was a Rat" (1 text) Edith Fulton Fowke (Literary Editor) and Richard Johnston (Music Editor), Folk Songs of Canada (1954), pp.170–171, "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go" (1 text, 1 tune) Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs, edited and abridged by Norm Cohen (1982), pp.139–141, "The Frog's Courtship" (1 text, 1 tune—Randolph's 108A)

American composer William Grant Still featured the song in his Miniatures trio (1948) and later, quintet (1963). Dorothy Scarborough, A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains (1937), pp.244–248, "The Frog He Went a-Courting" (3 texts, the first two, with local titles "Frog Went a-Courting" and "Frog Went Courting" and tune on p.420, are this song; the third item, "The Gentleman Frog", is separate, probably part of the "Kemo Kimo"/"Frog in the Well" family) Alternative titles [ edit ] Lyrics and illustration for "The Frog's Wooing" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters However, in one of his songs, he also calls himself Risk as well, making him the second akumatized person to refer to both their previous and akumatized identity after Vivica. An instrumental of the song is played in the 1992 VHS "Let's Draw!" in the scene where a number 8 is drawn into a frog.

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Also known as “Frog Went A Courtin”, “Froggy Went A Courtin” tells the story of Mr Frog who is asking Miss Mouse to marry him. Iona and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997), 175, "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go" (3 texts) Barkk • Daizzi • Duusu • Fluff • Kaalki • Liiri • Longg • Mullo • Nooroo • Orikko • Plagg • Pollen • Roaar • Sass • Stompp • Tikki • Trixx • Wayzz • Xuppu • Ziggy Paul G. Brewster, Ballads and Songs of Indiana (1940), 42, "The Frog Went a-Courting" (5 texts plus an excerpt and mention of 4 more, 3 tunes—one of them of the "Kitty Alone" type) In Six Feet Under Season 4, Episode 3 "Parallel Play", Russell Corwin, played by Ben Foster, sings the chorus over and over on a stage at a party.