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B:Broadwood, L, 1893, English County Songs, London, Leadenhall Press
S:Mrs Squarey, Downtown and Heywood Sumner
Z: Lucy Broadwood
T:The Jolly Ploughboy
F: http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
T:The Jolly Ploughboy     %Tune name
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w:There were two lov-ing bro-thers, two bre-thren were_ born__
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w:Two bre-thren whose trades we still keep;
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w:      The one was a plough-man, a plant-er of corn,
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w:The o-ther a ten-der of sheep.
W:There were two loving brothers, two brethren were born
W:Two brethren whose trades we still keep;
W:The one was a ploughman, a planter of corn,                       
W:The other a tender of sheep.
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W:Come, all jolly ploghboys, come help me for to sing,
W:I'll sing in the praise of the plough,
W:For though we must labour from summer to spring
W:We all will be merry boys now.
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W:We've hir-ed, we've mir-ed, through mire and through clay,
W:No pleasure at all could we find;
W:Now we'll laugh, dance and sing, and drive care away,
W:No more in this world to repine.
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W:Here's April, here's May, here's June and July,
W:'Tis a pleasure to see the corn grow;
W:In August we moil it, shear low and reap high,
W:And bind up our scythes for to mow.
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W:So now we have gathered up every sheaf,
W:And scrape-ed up every ear;
W:We'll make no more to-do, but to plough and to sow,
W:And provide for the very next year.
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