[HerenIstarion]

O! What are you doing,
And where are you going?
Your ponies need shoeing!
The river is flowing!
O! tra-la-la-lally
here down in the valley!

O! What are you seeking,
And where are you making?
The faggots are reeking,
The bannocks are baking!
O! tril-lil-lil-lolly
the valley is jolly,
ha! ha!

O! Where are you going
With beards all a-wagging?
No knowing, no knowing
What brings Mister Baggins,
And Balin and Dwalin
down into the valley
in June
ha! ha!

O! Will you be staying,
Or will you be flying?
Your ponies are straying!
The daylight is dying!
To fly would be folly,
To stay would be jolly
And listen and hark
Till the end of the dark
to our tune
ha! ha.'



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Ah! That’s what I’m being
That’s whence I’m coming
My dragon needs nothing
But vulcano erupting!
Ah! Tam tara ram it!
Up there on the summit!

Ah! That’s what I’d be finding
The root of undoing
The flow out-putting
The blaze of star-shooting
Ah! Doom doora doomy
The pinnacle is roomy!
Hey ho!

Ah! That’s whence I’m coming
With blade for a shaving
The secret I’m keeping
Is why I am climbing
A-creeping, a-crowling
Up, up the sheer wall
With a winter a-stroll
Hey ho!

Ah! Would I be falling?
Or would I be diving?
My dragon’s back’s swaying
Grey morn is a-coming
And dive is so darin’
Whilst fall is so scarin'
But to see and be seen
Is the pleasure so keen
High on that wall
Hey ho!