Once there was a song

Once there was a song
A cheerful song
With a rustle of silk skirts in the breeze
With a steady clumpety-clump of heavy soiled feet
On the paddy fields.

Once there was a song
That rose like the happy curve
Of a plump maiden's cheeks
A rare flat note like rancid butter
But up it would come again
A light breezy note of sunshine

Once there was a song
I am sure..I heard it afterall!
It just came to me on an evening
As I quietly sat by reading..
And I tapped to it and sang aloud
And a moment's magic it had wound

Once there was a song
It was here just now..
For a snatch..and then gone..
Funny a chill that I never knew
Now grows into me..,up my bone
A merry song that left me cold..
A merry song that left me cold..