tom-tit

As they arrived, they saw a scruffy busker sitting on the floor near the entrance with a massive head of curly hair and a bushy beard, and, as he strummed on his small guitar, he sang: "On a tree by a river a little tom-tit sang 'Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow'."

17 In which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is a song beginning: "On a tree by a river a little Tom-Tit sang Willow, Tit-Willow, Tit-

A Wandering Minstrel I, Behold The Lord High Executioner, On A Tree By A River, and A Little Tom-tit Sang, Willow, Tit-willow are just some of the well-known numbers.