| If all the world were paper |
| And all the sea were ink |
| If all the trees were bread and cheese |
| How should we do for drink? |
| If there had been no projects |
| Nor none that did great wrongs |
| If fiddlers shall turn players all |
| How should we do for songs? |
| If all the world were sand’o |
| Oh then what should we lack’o |
| If as they say there were no clay |
| How should we take tobacco? |
| If there had been no projects |
| Nor none that did great wrongs |
| If fiddlers shall turn players all |
| How should we do for songs? |
| If all our vessels ran’a |
| If none but has a crack’a |
| If Spanish apes ate all the grapes |
| How should we do for sack’a? |
| If there had been no projects |
| Nor none that did great wrongs |
| If fiddlers shall turn players all |
| How should we do for songs? |
| If friars had no bald pates |
| Nor nuns had no dark cloisters |
| If all the seas were beans and peas |
| How should we do for oysters? |
| If there had been no projects |
| Nor none that did great wrongs |
| If fiddlers shall turn players all |
| How should we do for songs? |
| If all things were eternal |
| And nothing their end bringing |
| If this should be, then how should we |
| Here make an end of singing? |
| If there had been no projects |
| Nor none that did great wrongs |
| If fiddlers shall turn players all |
| How should we do for songs? |