| Lyrics: | The Poor Man
O poor man, O poor man come tell unto me true;
How you maintain your family
and how you carry them through;
How you maintain your family when most of them are
small,
And nothing but your labour to maintain then all.
'Tis sometimes I do reap
and sometimes I do sow,
Sometimes hedging, sometimes ditching, such work I often
do;
There's nothing comes amiss to me, I harrow and I plow,
I maintain my family by sweat
of my brow.
Early in the morning, l'm always of good cheer,
With a flail in my hand
and a bottle of good beer;
A flail in my hand and a bottle of good beer,
I live as happy
as those worth ten thousand a year.
My wife she's always willing to hall [sic] in the
yoke,
We live like lambs together, and we never do provoke;
Altho' it may be possible that
we do now live poor,
Yet we can feed the beggars that come to our door.
When I come
home at nignt, su weary then I be,
Then I take up my youngest child and dance it on my
knee,
The rest all come around me and make a prattling noise,
And this is all the comfort
[a] poor man enjoys,
This nobleman hearing what this poor man did say,
He invited
him to dine with him the very next day,
He invited him his wife and children all to
bring,
And in token of favor he gave him a ring,
Quite early the next morning, this
poor man arose,
And dress'd up all his children in the finest of their cloaths
Then the
poor man and his wife and his seven children small
They all went to dine at this nobleman's
hall, '
And then after dinner he soon did let him know,
What into this poor man's
hands he had then to bestow;
'Twas forty or fifty good acres of his land,
He gave him in
writing and sign'd his own hand,
Saying on this you may live happy all your
life,
Therefore I do entreat you to be kind to your wife;
Be kind unto your wife and
children all around,
There's few of those noblemen that are to be found.
From
Contentment, Douglas.
@farm @poor @gift @wealth
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