He used his pipe, and she used her legs;

She danced about till the eggs were all broke,

She began for to fret, but he laugh’d at the joke.

He saw a cross fellow was beating an ass,

Heavy laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass;

He took out his pipe and play’d them a tune,

And the jackass’s load was lighten’d full soon.

Tom, Tom, the piper’s son,