Please, your honours', said she
I am able, by means of a secret charm,
To draw all creatures living beneath the sun
That creep or swim or fly or run
After me so as you never saw.'
Her pipes she played and elks and bears
Lay down before her, feet in air
And only a bullet had she for them. But then
She beckoned and first there came
Alaskans, white and brown, the same
Then following with speed the magic sounds
Did elephants and hooded men abound
And took she them far underground
So far that'll never more be found
And piercing voices still you hear
Come back for us oh Sarah, dear.
And Hammelin's city had lost its vermin
Carried away 'hind a coat of ermine
The children too had disappeared
With mothers and fathers all clad in blue
And piercing voices still you hear
Come back for us, oh Sarah dear.
