Snail! Snail!

Melody -

Snail, snail
put out your horns
I'll give you bread
and barleycorns.
  Snail, snail, shoot out your horns:
Father and mother are dead;
Brother and sister are in the back yard,
Begging for barley bread.

Snail! snail!
Come out of your hole,
Or else I'll beat you
As black as a coal.
An ancient incantation, versions of which have been found all over Europe, and also Russia and China.
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