Boot  mind  dis  dings  vot  I  say  to  you  :

If  you  dare —

Pe-ware  !  pe-ware  !
If  you  dare  to  follow  me
Und  be-seeket  any  dings  for  to  see,
Py  shingo  ! — I'll  make  minsch-meat  of  dee,

Und  dot  is  true,

Uh-hu  !     Uh-hu  /  "

She  lookt  like  der  Teufel  ash  she  said  it,
Und  he  put  it  toun  to  der  Teufel's  credit.
Soon  dey  coom  to  de  forest  ground

Vhere  de  Nuts  vere  a  lyin'  all  around,

Put  de  poy  he  took  em  mit  sorryfool  feelin',

Pecause  a-dakin  dese  noots  vas  shtealin',

Und  he  knew  dot  if  caught  py  de  owner  a  doin-it,

He  vouldt  fery  cerdainly  soon  be  rue-in  it.
Und  ash  he  pickt  he  kep'  dinkin'  und  dinkin'

Into  vot  blace  de  oldt  witch  could  pe  slinkin',

Und  vot  de  gause

Of  dis  secresy  vas  ;

Dill  at  last  he  say,  "  May  der  Teufel  swallow  her  !
Anyhow  I  am  goin'  to  follow  her  !  "

Saidt  und  done,

Away  he  run,

Trackin'  her  closely  on  her  path,
Nefer  a-heedin'  her  spite  or  wrath,
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Germany —  Tyrol.
Dill  he  come  to  a  blace  in  a  lonely  wold  !
Und  oh  !— vot  dings  he  vas  dere  pehold  !
Five  hundert  witches  und  seventy  dree,
All  on  a  howlin'  und  derriple  spree  !

Roundt  on  a  dree

Hung  a  hundert  skulls  in  which  shone  a  light
Green  und  red  from  de  eyes  so  pright,
Ofer  dem  all  in  de  gadderin  night,
Vot  made  a  remarkaply  derrible  sighdt  ;

Und  on  a  crate  shtone,

Mit  vines  o'ergrown,
Sat  a  forty-teufel  orchestra
Dot  on  forty  instrumends  tid  blay
To  de  witches  und  wizzers  a  yellin'  und  tantzin',
Huggin'  und  shkreeming  and  leapin'  und  prancin'.
