Eggs & Crumbs -

A woman had a baby boy

She loved him much and he gave her joy

The wee folk came and on a whim

They took the boy away with them

Eggs and crumbs and milk and grain

Bring my baby back again

And in his place they left, instead

A changeling sleeping in his bed

The lass she saw his wizened face

«They've ta’en my baby from his place

Eggs and crumbs and milk and grain

Bring my baby back again

The changeling shrieked and howled and cried

And naught she did would make it bide

She formed a plan to try to prove

This Elfling child was not her love

Eggs and crumbs and milk and grain

Bring my baby back again

She put a cauldron on to boil

And soon the changeling ceased to roil

She broke a dozen eggs in half

And as he watched, the changeling laughed

Eggs and crumbs and milk and grain

Bring my baby back again

She put the eggs shells in the brew

He says, «Me mother, what do you do?»

«Why, can you see, my silly dove?

I’ve egg shells brewing on the stove.»

Eggs and crumbs and milk and grain

Bring my baby back again

«In eighteen hundred years,» says he

«A brewer of shells I never did see!»

And with those words he realized

He broke the spell and he lost the prize

Eggs and crumbs and milk and grain

Bring my baby back again

And with her baby boy restored

The lass was troubled never more