The Quack Frog — Nursery Rhyme Lyrics

A Frog once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: "How can you pretend to prescribe for others, and you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?"
Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

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What are the words to The Quack Frog?
The lyrics to The Quack Frog are: A Frog once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: "How can you pretend to prescribe for others, and you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?" / Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
How many lines does The Quack Frog have?
"The Quack Frog" has 2 lines of verse.

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