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When the corn 's all cut and the bright stalks shine	A
Like the burnished spears of a field of gold	B
When the field mice rich on the nubbins dine	A
And the frost comes white and the wind blows cold	B
Then it's heigho fellows and hi diddle diddle	C
For the time is ripe for the corn stalk fiddle	C
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And you take a stalk that is straight and long	D
With an expert eye to its worthy points	E
And you think of the bubbling strains of song	D
That are bound between its pithy joints	E
Then you cut out strings with a bridge in the middle	C
With a corn stalk bow for a corn stalk fiddle	C
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Then the strains that grow as you draw the bow	F
O'er the yielding strings with a practised hand	G
And the music's flow never loud but low	C
Is the concert note of a fairy band	G
Oh your dainty songs are a misty riddle	C
To the simple sweets of the corn stalk fiddle	C
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When the eve comes on and our work is done	H
And the sun drops down with a tender glance	I
With their hearts all prime for the harmless fun	H
Come the neighbor girls for the evening's dance	I
And they wait for the well known twist and twiddle	C
More time than tune from the corn stalk fiddle	C
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Then brother Jabez takes the bow	F
While Ned stands off with Susan Bland	G
Then Henry stops by Milly Snow	C
And John takes Nellie Jones's hand	G
While I pair off with Mandy Biddle	C
And scrape scrape scrape goes the corn stalk fiddle	C
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Salute your partners comes the call	C
All join hands and circle round	J
Grand train back and Balance all	C
Footsteps lightly spurn the ground	J
Take your lady and balance down the middle	C
To the merry strains of the corn stalk fiddle	C
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So the night goes on and the dance is o'er	K
And the merry girls are homeward gone	L
But I see it all in my sleep once more	M
And I dream till the very break of dawn	L
Of an impish dance on a red hot griddle	C
To the screech and scrape of a corn stalk fiddle	C

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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