Frenchmen Froth

Frenchmen Froth is a song written by J.R.R. Tolkien, to be sung to the tune of The Vicar of Bray. It is published as the 26th song in Songs for the Philologists in 1936.

Poem excerpt

Frenchmen Froth

Though Frenchmen froth with furious sound
    And fill our frousty mansions,
And gurgling uvulas are ground,
    And tremblers pay 'attention';
Though History roll in dreary round
    Colonial expansion,
And king and parliamentary hound,
    And constitutional sanction,

This is my faith, I do maintain, until the stars shall fall, sir!
Let other lands be what they claim, is England best of all, sir!