⁠Is the concert note of a fairy band.
Oh, your dainty songs are a misty riddle
To the simple sweets of the corn-stalk riddle.

When the eve comes on, and our work is done,
⁠And the sun drops down with a tender glance,
With their hearts all prime for the harmless fun,
⁠Come the neighbor girls for the evening's dance,
And they wait for the well-known twist and twiddle—
More time than tune from the corn-stalk fiddle.

Then brother Jabez takes the bow,
⁠While Ned stands off with Susan Bland,
Then Henry stops by Milly Snow,
⁠And John takes Nellie Jones's hand,
While I pair off with Mandy Biddle,
And scrape, scrape, scrape goes the corn-stalk fiddle.