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Lyrics for Honest Labourer by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Honest Labourer | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 138 | | | | Lyrics: | HONEST LABOURER
It was of an honest labourer,
As I've heard people say,
He goes
out in the morning
And he works hard all the day.
And he's got seven children
And
most of them are small;
He has nothing but hard labour
To maintain them all.
A
gentlemen, one evening,
Walking out to take the air,
He met with this poor labouring
man
And solemnly declared,
I think you are that thresherman
Yes sir, said he, that's
true
How do you get your living
Just as well as you do?
Sometimes I do reap
And
sometimes I do mow
And other times to hedging
And to ditching I do go;
There is
nothing comes amiss to me
From the harrow to the plough.
That's how I get my
living
By the sweat of my brow.
When I go home at night
Just as tired as I
be,
I take my youngest child
And I dance him on my knee.
The others come around
me
With their prittle-prattling toys,
And that's the only comfort
A working man
enjoys.
"My wife and I are willing,
And we both join in one yoke;
We live like
two turtle doves
And not one word provoke,
Although the times are very hard
And we
are very poor.
We can scarcely keep the raving wolf
Away from the door."
Well
done, you honest labourer,
You speak well of your wife.
I hope you will live
happy
All the days of your life.
Here's forty acres of good land
Which I will give to
thee,
Which will help to maintain your wife
And little family.
Recorded by the
Copper Family
@farm @work
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