- singing mice: [singing as they work in the field] Wheat makes flour; / flour makes dough. / This is true, it's really so - so / sew! / Wheat makes flour; flour makes dough - / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew. /
- [Grandpa mouse]
- singing mice: Can't get cheese from trees you know / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew. /
- [solo mouse]
- singing mice: If you say 'well, I don't give a darn', /
- [all mice]
- singing mice: you'll be hungry with a hen-pecked farm. / This is true, it's really so - / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew. /
- [instrumental break]
- singing mice: / If you say 'well, I don't give a darn', / you'll be hungry with a hen-pecked farm. / This is true, it's really so - / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew.
- [first lines]
- mama mouse: [angrily gasps as she sees her son Herman lazily still asleep in bed] Well!... Herman?... Herrrmannn?... Herman! Why, you lazy little boy. You get right up this minute. Get up! Get up!
- [spanks him on the behind with her tail]
- mama mouse: There, now you run along and work - you lazy little boy.
- [last lines]
- Grandpa: [as he happily hoists Herman up onto his lap upon being reunited after the reaper incident] Well Herman, we went through the bale, but we sure come out on top.
- Herman: [happily singing] This is true, it's really so - / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew.
- Grandpa: [singing] Can't get cheese from trees you know, / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew. /
- [laughing]
- Grandpa: Hehehehehehe.
- [stops Herman as he sees him sulking past]
- Grandpa: What's the matter sonny? Come here. Did your ma catch ya sleepin' again? Hehehehehehe.
- Herman: I'm, I'm gonna run away!
- Grandpa: Suuuure. Hehehe. But who's gonna eat alllll them cookies your mama just made?
- Herman: Cookies?
- Grandpa: Hehehe. Now you get out there and get to work. Ehehehehehehe.