The hammer goes tick-tick-tick!
On the nail he longs to go,
He keeps on going until his owner wants to. The long big-headed hammer, we think But the nail thinks, the hammer is his foe.

The hammer goes tick-tick-tick!
And he never tends to break a thing!
Oh you mallet! You have so much work to do, In the hands of the blacksmiths!

The hammer goes tick-tick-tick!
Oh! you have moulded a million things!
And where haven't you worked?
As a gavel in the hands of a judge!
Or in the shop of the blacksmith's!
The hammer goes tick-tick-tick!

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