coat.

The fiddlers they laughed till

they scarce could see,

And then they fiddled so cheerily, O,

And the fairies and children around the tree,

They all went tripping so merrily, O.

The fiddlers they boxed up their fiddles all;

The fairies they silently flew away;

But every child at the Christmas ball

Had danced with a fairy first, they say.