Eggs & Crumbs Lyrics

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
CHORUS:
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

[CHORUS]

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
[CHORUS]

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

[CHORUS]

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."
[CHORUS]

"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

[REPEAT CHORUS TWICE]

And with her baby boy restored,
The lass was troubled never more