When I lived with my father as an apprentice shepherd, he sent me to the moor to look after the sheep. Sheep, sheep, I had but a few. Sheep, sheep, I had none that were bonny. No, I had but a few, I had but three lambs; and the wolf from the plain ate the finest of those. Sheep, sheep, ... He was so ravenous he left only the pelt, he left only the tail to put on my hat. Sheep, sheep, ... But the bones of the animal made me pipe to play at the fair, at the village fair. Sheep, sheep, ... So the village could dance beneath the great elm, young women and old with clogs on their feet. Sheep, sheep, ...
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