The Threshing Song-The Copper Family

[ti:The Threshing Song] [ar:The Copper Family] [al:Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Threshing Song - The Copper Family [00:01.21]It's all very well to have a machine [00:03.38]To thrash your wheat and barley clean [00:06.84]To thrash it and wim it all fit for sale [00:09.39]Then go off to market so brisk and well [00:11.96] [00:12.70]Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary [00:15.76]And make her old table shine [00:17.86] [00:19.00]The man who made her he made her so well [00:21.67]He made every cog and wheel to tell [00:24.21] [00:24.92]While the big wheel runs the little one hums [00:27.56]And the feeder he sits above the drum [00:30.15] [00:30.93]Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary [00:33.93]And make her old table shine [00:35.94] [00:36.89]There's old Father Howard the sheaves to put [00:39.57]While old Mother Howard she does make up [00:42.73]And Mary she sits and feeds all day [00:45.46]While Johnny he carries the straw away [00:48.46] [00:49.06]Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary [00:52.33]And make her old table shine [00:54.39] [00:55.51]At seven o'clock we do begin [00:58.06]And we generally stop about nine or ten [01:01.04] [01:01.73]To have our beer and oil her up [01:04.33]Then away we go till one o'clock [01:07.32]Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary [01:10.76]And make her old table shine [01:12.97] [01:13.89]Then after a bite and a drink all round [01:16.67]The driver he climbs to his box again [01:19.71] [01:20.32]And with his long whip he shouts All right [01:23.04]And he drives them round till five at night [01:26.82]Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary [01:30.38]And make her old table shine