Two Young Brethren-The Copper Family

[ti:Two Young Brethren] [ar:The Copper Family] [al:Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Two Young Brethren - The Copper Family [00:00.64]Come all jolly ploughmen and help me to sing [00:06.24] [00:06.81]I will sing in the praise of you all [00:12.10]I a man he don't labour how can he get bread [00:18.36]I will sing and make merry with all [00:23.66] [00:24.68]It was of two young brethren [00:27.54]Two young brethren bold [00:30.90]I was of two young brethren bold [00:35.44] [00:36.36]One he was a shepherd and a tender of sheep [00:42.24]The other a planter of corn [00:47.18] [00:48.54]We will rile it we will tile it [00:51.82]Through mud and through clay [00:54.36] [00:54.92]We will plough it up deeper and low [00:59.43] [01:00.48]Then after comes the seedsman [01:03.42]His corn for to sow [01:06.45]And the harrows to rake it in rose [01:11.81] [01:12.78]There is April there is May [01:15.46] [01:15.97]There is June and July [01:19.03]What a pleasure it is for to see the corn grow [01:25.66]In August we will reap it we will cut [01:30.13]Sheaf and bind it [01:31.90] [01:32.51]And go down with our scythes for to mow [01:38.08] [01:39.13]And after we've reaped it of every sheaf [01:45.10] [01:45.63]And have gathered of every ear [01:50.71]With a drop of good beer boys [01:53.57]And our hearts full of cheer [01:56.35] [01:57.11]We will wish them another good year [02:02.44] [02:03.62]Our barns they are full [02:05.88] [02:06.88]And our fields they are clear [02:10.05]Good health to our master and friends [02:14.81] [02:15.61]We will make no more to do [02:18.29]But we'll plough and we'll sow [02:21.95]And prepare for the very next year