I Go Like The Raven

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