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Lyrics for Seasons Round by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Seasons Round | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 158 | | | | Lyrics: | THE SEASONS ROUND
The sun has gone down and the sky it looks red,
Down on my soft
pillow where I lay my head.
When I open my eyes for to see the stars shine,
Then the
thoughts of my true love run into my mind.
The sap has gone down and the leaves they do
fall.
To hedging and ditching! our farmers they'll call.
We will trim up their hedges, we
will cut down their wood;
And the farmers they'll all say, Our faggots run good.
Now
hedging being over, then sawing draws near.
We will send for the sawyer, the woods for to
clear.
And after he has sawed them and tumbled them down,
Then there he will floor them
all on the cold ground.
When sawing is over, then seed-time comes round.
See our
teams, they are all ready preparing the ground.
Then the man with his seed-lip he'll scatter
the corn,
Then the harrows they will bury, to keep it from harm.
Now seed-time being
over, then haying draws near.
With our scythe, rake, and pitch-fork, those meadows to
clear,
We will cut down their grass, boys, and carry it away;
We will turn it to the green
grass and then call it hay.
When haying is over, then harvest draws near.
We will
send to our brewer to brew us strong beer.
And in brewing strong beer, we will cut down their
corn;
We will take it to the barn, boys, to keep it from harm.
Now harvest being
over, bad weather comes on;
We will send for the thrasher to thrash out the corn.
His
hand-staff he' Il handle, his swinger he' Il swing;
Till the very next harvest we 'Il all meet
again.
Now since we have brought this so cheerfully round,
We will send for the
jolly ploughman to plough up the ground.
See the boy with his whip and the man to his
plough;
Here's a health to the jolly ploughman that ploughs up the ground.
Now
things they do change as the time passes on;
I'm afraid I'll have occasion to alter my
song.
You'll see a boy with a tractor a-going like hell;
Whatever farming is coming to,
there's no tongue can tell.
recorded by The Copper family
NOTE: This song used
to be followed by a Toast to the
Plough: Success to the bright plough-share, and may it
never
rust. Verse nine is, of course, a recent addition by the Copper
family. Other
versions have bean collected in Southern England and
published under the title of The Seasons
of the Year.
@seasonal @farm
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