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T:Ploughboy's Glory
S:Mr Knight, Horsham, 1907
Z:George Butterworth, IV 261-262; V1a 61; VIIc, 86
B:The Ploughboy's Glory, Ed M Dawney, EFDSS, 1977
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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D2 |D2 G2 D2 |G2 F2 D2 |E2 G2 E2 | D4
w:Come all you gay plough-boys, come help me to sing,
D2 |G2 A2 B2 |d2 c2 B2 |A4-|A6
w:I~will sing in the praise of you all
G2 |d2 A2 B2 |c2 c2 d2 |B2 G2 A2 | D4
w:And if we don't la-bour how can we get bread,
D2 |G2 B2 d2 |c2 A2 F2 |G6 |]
w:We~will sing and be mer-ry with-al.
W:Come all you gay ploughboys, come help me to sing,
W:I will sing in the praise of you all.
W:And if we don't labour, how can we get bread,
W:We will sing and be merry withal.
W:
W:O there was two brethren, two brethrens born,
W:Its there was two b[rethrens] born.
W:O its one was a shepherd, a tender of sheep,
W:And the other a planter of corn.
W:
W:There is April, there is May, there is June and July,
W:What a pleasure to see the corn grow.
W:And when August draws nigh, we will reap sheaves and tie,
W:Go down with our scythes for to mow.
W:
W:O its when we had mowed and reaped every sheaf,
W:We will carry it safe to the barn,
W:We will make no more to do, but to ploughing we'll go,
W:And provide for the very next year.
W:
W:Then at night we retire thro' clods and thro' clay.
W:No comfort at all can we find.
W:We will sit down and sing, and drive away care,
W:We will leave this wide world to repine.