Come listen to my lay,

While I the wild and wond’rous tale array,

How Fly-by-Night went down,

And set a bank up in a country town;

How like a king his head he reared,

And how the coast of cash he cleared,

And how one night he disappeared,

When many a scoffer jibed and jeered;

And many an old man rent his beard;

And many a young man cursed and railed;