The Honest Labourer-Bob Cooper/Ron Copper

[ti:The Honest Labourer] [ar:Bob Cooper] [al:English Shepherd and Farming Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Honest Labourer - Bob Cooper/Ron Copper [00:01.67]It was of an honest labourer [00:04.92] [00:05.46]As I've heard people say [00:09.12]He goes out in the morning [00:12.27]And he works hard all the day [00:16.56]And he's got seven children [00:20.10]And most of them are small [00:23.67]He has nothing but hard labour [00:27.51]To maintain them all [00:30.79] [00:31.72]A gentleman one evening walking [00:35.63]Out to take the air [00:38.38]He met with this poor labouring man [00:42.07]And solemnly declared [00:45.83]I think you are that thresher-man [00:49.54]Yes sir Said he that's true [00:53.45]How do you get your living as well as you do [01:00.96] [01:02.07]Sometimes I do reap [01:05.57]And sometimes I do mow [01:09.79]At other times to hedging [01:13.05]And to ditching I do go [01:17.33]There is nothing comes amiss to [01:20.86]Me from the harrow to the plough [01:24.88] [01:25.40]That's how I get my living by the sweat of my brow [01:33.02] [01:33.91]When I go home at night just as tired as I be [01:41.86]I take my youngest child [01:45.23]And I dance him on my knee [01:49.38]They others they come around me [01:52.34]With their prittle-prattling toys [01:56.52]And that's the only [01:58.77]Comfort a working man enjoys [02:03.77] [02:04.91]My wife and I are willing [02:08.14]And we join both in one yoke [02:12.23]We live like to two turtle doves [02:15.98]And not one word provoke [02:19.89]Although the times are very hard [02:23.88]And we are very poor [02:27.31]We can scarcely keep the raving [02:30.86]Wolf away from the door [02:35.04] [02:36.52]Well done you honest labourer [02:40.35]You speak well of your wife [02:43.73] [02:44.26]I hope you will live happy [02:47.48]All the days of your life [02:52.01]Here is forty acres of [02:54.96]Good land which I will give to thee [02:59.82]Which will help to maintain your [03:04.04]Sweet wife and little family