Woodpecker woman, chipaway, whittle, carve my name in a hick'ry fiddle

Dance all night, dream just a little, i go like the raven



Down in the meadow, deep in the holler, bullfrong sing to the bug-eyed crawler

Slide to the rake, hop to the caller, reel with the willow waivin



Shine the merlin moonbeam eye

Set my dancin feet to fly

O'er the dark and dervish sky

I go like the raven



Long time ago i had me a feller, three-cocked hat and a coat o' yeller

Locked me down in a sawdust cellar,fed me beans and bacon



Through the doorway he did enter, played him coy, played him tender

Played him slumber through the winter, gone when the birds awakened



Shine the merlin moonbeam eye ...



When they hear my bowstrings tightnin, angels gay, devils frightnin

C'mon fire and midnight lightnin to the garden gancy



Hail the wayward werewolf howlin, haints and shades and goblins growlin

Fiends and demon deevs a-prowlin when i break and fancy



Shine the merlin moonbeam eye ...



Now all you blackbirds, plain or pretty, hear my words for rede or witty:

Keep the greenwood, shun the city and her dandies craven