But if you turn us inside out,

We're stouter men within.

For he is all a puff, and smoke,

A sound that dies away;

But we are they who crack a joke,

That lasts for many a day.

He has his crotchets; we do harp,

On clients, this, and that,

He has his sharps, and we are sharp,

His flats, and they are flat;