Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne With a Memoir and Poems of Caroline Oliphant the Younger: Edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers ... With a Portrait and Other Illustrations |
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THE PLEUGHMAN. |
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THE PLEUGHMAN.
There's high and low, there's rich and poor,
There's trades and crafts eneuch, man;
But east and west his trade's the best,
That kens to guide the pleugh, man.
There's trades and crafts eneuch, man;
But east and west his trade's the best,
That kens to guide the pleugh, man.
Then, come, weel speed my pleughman lad,
And hey my merry pelughman;
Of a' the trades that I do ken,
Commend me to the pleughman.
And hey my merry pelughman;
Of a' the trades that I do ken,
Commend me to the pleughman.
His dreams are sweet upon his bed,
His cares are light and few, man;
His mother's blessing's on his head,
That tents her weel, the pleughman.
Then, come, weel speed, &c.
His cares are light and few, man;
His mother's blessing's on his head,
That tents her weel, the pleughman.
Then, come, weel speed, &c.
The lark sae sweet, that starts to meet
The morning fresh and new, man;
Blythe tho' she be, as blythe is he
That sings as sweet, the pleughman.
Then, come, weel speed, &c.
The morning fresh and new, man;
Blythe tho' she be, as blythe is he
That sings as sweet, the pleughman.
Then, come, weel speed, &c.
All fresh and gay, at dawn of day,
Their labours they renew, man;
Heaven bless the seed and bless the soil,
And heaven bless the pleughman.
Then, come, weel speed, &c.
Their labours they renew, man;
Heaven bless the seed and bless the soil,
And heaven bless the pleughman.
Then, come, weel speed, &c.
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