What Do The Simple Folk Do?

What do the simple folk do To help them escape when they're blue? The shepherd who is ailing The milkmaid who is glum The cobbler who is wailing From nailing his thumb When they're beset and besieged The folk not noblessly obliged However, do they manage To shed their weary lot? Oh, what do simple folk do We do not? I have been informed By those who know them well They find relief in quite a clever way When they're sorely pressed They whistle for a spell And whistling seems to brighten up their day So, that's what simple folk do So they say So they say Stop! You are terrible at whistling I'm a beginner I just need practice and encouragement The very last thing you should have is encouragement What else do the simple folk do? To perk up the heart and get through The wee folk and the grown folk Who wander to and fro Have ways known to their own folk We throne folk don't know When all the doldrums begin What keeps each of them in his skin? What ancient native custom Provides the needed glow? Oh, what do simple folk do? Do you know? Once along the road I came upon a lad Singing in a voice three times his size When I asked him why He told me he was sad And singing always made his spirit rise And that's what simple folk do I surmise I surmise Arise, my love Arise, my love Apollo's lighting the skies, my love The meadows shine with columbine And daffodils blossom away You have a very pretty singing voice Thank you My father used to say I sang like an angel Who'd been blessed with a particularly pretty singing voice I meant relative to your whistling, but sure What else do the simple folk do? They must have a system or two They obviously outshine us At turning tears to mirth Have tricks a royal highness Is minus from birth What then, I wonder, do they To chase all the goblins away They have some tribal sorcery You haven't mentioned yet Oh, what do simple folk do To forget? Often, I am told they dance a fiery dance And whirl 'til they're completely uncontrolled Soon the mind is blank And all are in a trance A violent trance astounding to behold So, that's what simple folk do So, I'm told What else do the simple folk-? (Genny) Your Majesty They sit around and wonder What royal folk would do And that's what simple folk do Yes, I suppose so Yes, that's what simple folk do