zig-a-zig-a-zig

Updated: May 8, 2025

Zig-a-zig-a-zig, how it makes you quake, As you hear the bones of the dancers shake. But hist! all at once they vanish away, The cock has hailed the dawn of day. The magic midnight strokes sound clear and sharp. In eager chords of tuned pitch the fiddling ghost summons the dancing groups, where the single fife is soon followed by demon violins.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies