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THE FAIRY CAMP
Poem, Danske Dandridge – Music, Terry Tucker

What did I see in the woods, to-day? I saw a fairies' gypsy-camp,
The tents were toadstools, brown and gray, among the bracken, soiled and damp,
I called on a cowslip 'mid the green and borrowed a bit of fairy gold,
And then I found the Gypsy-Queen and so I had my fortune told.

Ah, yes, she told me a secret true, that wild-eyed gypsy, brown and red!
But I may not tell it out to you, for that would break the charm, she said,
And if you seek them by yourself you will not find that strolling band; They have pilfered the wild bees' hoarded pelf and flitted away to another land.