Come young hobbit maidens where'er you have been To the hills you call home and the Green Dragon Inn In all Middle Earth, you'll ne'er find a friend Like the lads that were reared in the Shire Your dwarf feasts away in caverns so tall Your parties with men-folk, your great elven balls For a dance 'neath the Tree is worth ten in the hall With the lads that were reared in the Shire Take a walk 'round your cities, its walls reach the sky Gaze on the White Tree and Tower with pride, But the best pipe-weeds' grown on the Farthing's south side By the lads that were reared in the Shire Your dwarf feasts away in caverns so tall Your parties with men-folk, your great elven balls For a dance 'neath the Tree is worth ten in the hall With the lads that were reared in the Shire When Gandalf needs bearers or burglars to send On a mission quest thing, there and back again Even unto the Black Gates they're true to the end Are the lads that were reared in the Shire Your dwarf feasts away in caverns so tall Your parties with men-folk, your great elven balls For a dance 'neath the Tree is worth ten in the hall With the lads that were reared in the Shire Now Rivendell boasts of their songs and their prose And Fangorn can boast for the trees that Ents grow But give me the land where the Brandywine flows And the green rolling hills of the Shire Your dwarf feasts away in caverns so tall Your parties with men-folk, your great elven balls For a dance 'neath the Tree is worth ten in the hall With the lads that were reared in the Shire Your dwarf feasts away in caverns so tall Your parties with men-folk, your great elven balls For a dance 'neath the Tree is worth ten in the hall With the lads that were reared in the Shire