What Do The Simple Folk Do? Lyrics - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

What do the simple folk do 

To help them escape when they're blue? 

The shepherd who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum 

The cobbler who is wailing from nailing his thumb 

When they're beset and besieged 

The folk not noblessly obliged 

However do they manage to shed their weary lot? 

Oh, what do simple folk do, we do not? 

I have been informed by those who know them well 

They find relief in quite a clever way 

When they're sorely pressed, they whistle for a spell 

And whistling seems to brighten up their day 

And that's what simple folk do, so they say 

They just whistle? 

So they say 

What else do the simple folk do 

To pluck up the heart and get through? 

The wee folk and the grown folk 

Who wander to and fro 

Have ways known to their own folk 

We throne folk don't know 

When all the doldrums begin 

What keeps each of them in his skin? 

What ancient native custom 

Provides the needed glow? 

Oh, what do simple folk do?, Do you know? 

Once, upon the road, I came upon a lad 

Singing in a voice three times his size 

When I asked him why, he told me he was sad 

And singing always made his spirits rise 

So that's what simple folk do, I surmise 

Arise my love, arise my love 

Apollo's lighting the skies, my love 

The meadows shine with columbine 

And daffodils blossom away 

Hear Venus call to one and all 

Come taste delight while you may 

The world is bright and all is right 

And life is merry and gay 

What else do the simple folk do? 

They must have a system or two 

They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth 

Have tricks a royal highness is minus from birth 

What, then, I wonder, do they 

To chase all the goblins away? 

They have some tribal sorcery you haven't mentioned yet 

Oh, what do simple folk do to forget? 

Often, I am told, they dance a fiery dance 

And whirl 'till they're completely uncontrolled 

Soon the mind is blank and all are in a trance 

A violent trance astounding to behold 

And that's what simple folk do, so I'm told 

Really? 

I have it on the best authority