QUOTE : You should have heard the old men cry<br />You should have heard the biddies<br />When that sad stranger rasied his flute<br />And piped away the kiddies.<br />Katy, Tommy, Meg, and Bob<br />Followed skipping gailey<br />Red-haired Ruth, my brother Ron,<br />And little crippled Bailey<br />Jon and Nils and Cousin Claire <br />Dancin', spinnin', turnin'<br />'Cross the hills to god knows where-<br />They never came returnin'.<br />'Cross the hills to god know where<br />The piper pranced a leadin'.<br />Each child in Hamlin town but me <br />And I stayed home unheedin'.<br />My papa says that I was blest <br />For if that music fond me<br />I'd be witch-cast like all the rest.<br />This town grows old around me.<br />I cannot say I did not hear<br />That sound so hauntin' hollow.<br />I heard, I heard, I heard it clear...<br />I was afraid to follow.