Little Cowboy, what have you heard,
Up on the lonely rath’s green mound?
Little Cowboy
Only the plaintive yellowbird
Sighing in sultry fields around,
“Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee!—”
Only the grasshopper and the bee.
Fairy Shoemaker (singing underground)
Tip-tap, rip-rap,
Tick-a-tack-too!