Tom Bombadil's Songs are, in the index of The Lord of the Rings, all listed as one continuous song. The first part is what Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee hear while Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took are stuck in Old Man Willow in the Old Forest: Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo! 1. The hobbits then hear a string of apparently nonsense-words followed by: 2. After Tom has freed Merry and Pippin, he goes on ahead to his house, outdistancing the hobbits. He sings this back to them: