The Spinning Carol

Humming, humming cheerily,
My wheel sings a song to me,
Going round and round, With buzzing sound,
Just like a bumblebee, a bumblebee,
Just like a big brown bumblebee,
ye-ye-ee-ee-ee-ee!

“Little maid” (it seems to say),
“You and I must work today!
Every thread must fly, Then by and by
I’ll rest and you will play, and you will play,
Oh, think how happily you’ll play,
ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay!”

Pretty flax, in fields you grew;
Once I saw your flow’rs of blue;
But now instead you’re making thread,
So you are working too, are working too,
So you are really working too,
oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!