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Lyrics for Four Loom Weaver by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Four Loom Weaver | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 168 | | | | Lyrics: | THE FOUR LOOM WEAVER
(Becket Whitehead's version of The Poor Cotton Weaver)
I'm a
four loom weaver, as many a man knows,
I've nowt to eat and I've worn out m' clothes
M'
clogs are all broken, and stockings I've none.
Thee'd hardly gi's tuppence for all I've gotten
on.
Old Billy O' Bent, he were telling us long
We mayn't had better times if I'd
nobbut held m' tongue.
Well, I held m' tongue til I near lost m' breath,
And I feel in m'
hear that I'II soon clem to death
I'm a four loom weaver, as many a man knows.
I've
nowt to eat and I've worn out m' clothes.
Old Billy were right, but he ne'er were
clemmed,
He ne'er picked o'er in his liie.
We held out for six weeks, thought each
day were the last.
We tarried and shifted til we were quite fast.
We lived upon nettles
while nettles were good.
And Waterloo Porridge were best to us (as) food.
Our
Margaret declares, if hoo'd clothes to put on,
Hoo'd go up t' London and see the great
man
And if things didn' alter when there hoo'd been
Hoo' swears hoo'd fight til there
blood up to th' e'en.
I'm a four loom weaver as many a man knows.
I've nowt to eat
and I've worn out m' clothes
Stockings I've none, nor looms to weave on,
I've woven m'sen
to far end.
Note: clem - starve; hoo'd - she'd
Recorded by Killen, Gallant Lads are
We; also MacColl
@union @weaving @strike @work
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