The fairy folk have gathered round
 the new moon shine
 To see the feller crack a nut at nights noon time
 To swing his axe he swears
 As it climbs he dares to deliver...
 The master stroke

 Ploughman, Waggoner Will, and types
 Politician with senatorial pipe -
 He's a dilly dally-o
 Pedagouge squinting, wears a frown
 And the satyr peers under lady's gown,
 Dirty fellow
 What a dirty laddio
 Tatterdemalion and a junketeer
 There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter -
 He's my hero
 Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
 Of his lady friend
 The nymph is yellow
 "Can we see the master stroke"
 What a quaere fellow

 Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy
 Waiting to hear the sound
 And the arch-magician presides
 He is the leader
 Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan
 Mab is the queen
 and there's a good apothecary man
 Come to say hello
 Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
 Of his lady friend
 The nymph in yellow
 What a quaere fellow
 The ostler stares with hands on his knees
 Come on Mr Feller
 Crack it open if you please