Before the son sees town, he trades their cow for magic beans.
And his mom gets so hot when she learns how he'd been outschemed.

Climbing the beanstalk, grown by the beans, yeah,
Where a giant is a-craving some young cuisine.

(Up on the beanstalk) "Fee-fi-fo-fum."
(Up on the beanstalk) "I can smell Englishman."
(Up on the beanstalk) "Be alive or be dead,"
(Up on the beanstalk) "I'll be breaking some bread."
Up on the beanstalk, beanstalk!

From a harp he heard the napping song of a lovely girl.
Mmm-mmm, in a basket laid some gold eggs from one sickly bird.

Down from the beanstalk, Jack he did flee, yeah,
With the harp-girl and the sick hen which he did steal.

(Down from the beanstalk) Chop-ping it down.
(Down from the beanstalk) Giant fell and broke crown.
(Down from the beanstalk) Harp-girl singing in sun,
(Down from the beanstalk) Healed hen laying funds.
Down from the beanstalk, beanstalk!

Oh, toppled the beanstalk, no more in need, yeah.
And the giant they escaped from is history.

(After the beanstalk) Crops to be plowed,
(After the beanstalk) The return of the cow.
(After the beanstalk) Healthy hen now does lay
(After the beanstalk) Golden egg ev'ry day.
After the beanstalk, beanstalk!