In the market-place you will see,
Young men are on sale this week,
A couple of thousand is the price for one,
Lord, how dear! Yet you do buy.

In the market-place you will see,
Young girls are on sale this week.
Two goats is the price for one of them,
Lord, how cheap! Yet no one buys.

See Song No. 97 of Bela Bartok, Hungarian Folk Music,
trans. M. D. Calvocoressi (London: Oxford University Press, 1931),
appendix p. 27, and text, p. 126.