The Two Brethren-Bob Cooper/Ron Copper

[ti:The Two Brethren] [ar:Bob Cooper] [al:English Shepherd and Farming Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Two Brethren - Bob Cooper/Ron Copper [00:01.11]Come all jolly ploughmen and help me to sing [00:07.20]I will sing in the praise of you all [00:12.50]If a man he don't labor how can he get bread [00:18.66]I will sing and make merry withal [00:24.46] [00:25.06]It was of two young brethren [00:28.04]Two young brethren born [00:31.19]It was of two young brethren born [00:36.60]One he was a shepherd and a tender of sheep [00:42.41]The other a planter of corn [00:47.61] [00:48.91]We will rile it we will toil it [00:52.24]Through mud and through clay [00:55.23]We will plough it up deeper and low [01:00.74]Then after comes the seedsman [01:03.63]His corn for to sow [01:06.66]And the harrows to rake it in rows [01:11.56] [01:12.87]There is April there is May [01:16.16]There is June and july [01:19.21]What a pleasure it is for to see the corn grow [01:25.76]In August we will reap it [01:28.88]We will cut sheathe and bind it [01:32.52]And go down with our scythes for to mow [01:38.11] [01:39.17]And after we have reaped it of every sheaf [01:45.20] [01:45.73]And gathered up every ear [01:50.77]With a drop of good beer boys [01:53.85]And our hearts full of cheer [01:57.09]We will wish them another good year [02:02.87] [02:03.71]Our barns they are full our fields they are cleared [02:10.18]Good health to our master and friends [02:14.95] [02:15.54]We will make no more to do [02:18.19]But we will plough and we'll sow [02:22.06]And provide for the very next year