Bath Song (Hobbit, Middle Earth Poem by J. R. R. Tolkien)

Song: Bath Song
Lyric by: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Music by: AI
Art by: MiriamEllisFineArt, AI, and "Bathing at Crickhollow" by Ted Nasmith

Note:
Bath-songs were a type of short song that Hobbits sung when bathing.
Bilbo Baggins had taught Frodo Baggins the words to his favorite bath-song during one of their walks in the lanes of the Water-valley.
This bath-song was sung by Peregrin Took in Crickhollow while he, Frodo, and Samwise Gamgee were bathing after their long journey from Hobbiton.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Conspiracy Unmasked"

Song Lyrics:
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain,
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!