The Seasons Round-The Copper Family

[ti:The Seasons Round] [ar:The Copper Family] [al:Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Seasons Round - The Copper Family [00:00.63]The sun has gone down [00:03.36]And the sky it looks red [00:06.21] [00:06.82]Down on my soft pillow where [00:10.45]I lay my head [00:12.90]When I open my eyes for to see the stars shine [00:19.21]Then the thoughts of [00:20.66]My true love run into my mind [00:25.13] [00:26.24]The sap has gone down [00:28.76]And the leaves they do fall [00:32.51]To hedging and ditching our farmers they'll call [00:38.67]We will trim up their hedges [00:41.73]We will cut down their wood [00:44.70]And the farmers they'll all [00:47.25]Say our faggots run good [00:50.63] [00:51.21]Now hedging being over [00:54.55]Then sawing draws near [00:57.68]We will send for the sawyer [01:00.79]The woods for to clear [01:03.95]And after he has sawed them [01:06.98]And tumbled them down [01:09.93]Then there he will flaw them [01:12.92]All on the cold ground [01:15.99] [01:17.02]When sawing is over then [01:20.81]Seedtime comes round [01:23.59]See our teams they [01:25.09]Are already preparing the ground [01:29.82]Then the man [01:30.90]With his seed-lip he'll scatter the corn [01:35.68]Then the harrows [01:37.18]They will bury it to keep it from harm [01:41.40] [01:42.84]Now seedtime being over [01:45.37] [01:45.88]Then haying draws near [01:49.02]With our scythes rakes [01:50.82]And pitch-forks those meadows to clear [01:55.16]We will cut down their grass boys [01:58.35]And carry it away [02:01.19]We will first call [02:02.58]It green grass and then call it hay [02:07.26] [02:08.25]When haying is over then harvest draws near [02:14.40]We will send to our Brewer [02:17.42]To brew us strong beer [02:20.40]And in brewing strong beer boys [02:23.58]We will cut down their corn [02:26.48]And we'll take it to the barn boys [02:29.33]To keep it from harm [02:32.17] [02:33.37]Now harvest being over bad weather comes on [02:39.25]We will send for the thresher [02:42.41]To thresh out our corn [02:45.56]His hand-staff he'll handle [02:48.45]His swingel he'll swing [02:51.68]Till the very next harvest we'll all meet again [02:57.61] [02:58.95]Now since we have brought this [03:01.88]So cheerfully around [03:04.40] [03:04.92]We will send for the jolly ploughman [03:07.84]To plough up the ground [03:10.80]See the boy with his whip [03:13.38]And the man to his plough [03:16.69]Here's a health to the jolly ploughmen [03:19.49]That plough up the ground [03:21.93] [03:23.65]Now things they do change as the time passes on [03:29.07] [03:29.63]And I'm afraid I'll have occasion to alter my song [03:35.82]You'll see a boy with a tractor a-going like hell [03:41.19] [03:41.72]Whatever farming is coming [03:44.39]To there's no tongue can tell