From the sheet music at the University of Maine: THE WOODPECKER Words, Frederick Manley; music, Ethelbert Nevin, ©1902. [1] There's someone tapping on the maple tree, Tap, tipy, tap, tap, tap; But there's no one about that I can see, Save a lark that is singing a song of glee On a sunlit bough, and it isn't he That is tapping away so steadily, Tap, tipy, tap, tap, tap. [2] There's someone coming down the maple tree, Tap, tipy, tap, tap, tap; And he's hopping about so busily In a cap quite as red as a barberry, And a coat deeply blue as a starlit sea An he's singing a laughing melody, Tap, tipy, tap, tap, tap. [3] There's someone going to the maple tree, Tap, tipy, tap, tap, tap; He's as gay as a prince or a lord, but he Hasn't time to go 'round shown off, you see, For he stays in the woods working lovingly At a snug little home for his family, Tap, tipy, tap, tap, tap.
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