Two Brethren-Shirley Collins/Dolly Collins

[ti:Two Brethren] [ar:Shirley Collins/Dolly Collins] [al:Snapshots] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Two Brethren - Shirley Collins/Dolly Collins [00:05.54]Come all jolly ploughmen and help me to sing [00:11.58] [00:12.33]I will sing in the praise of you all [00:17.25] [00:17.86]If a man he don't labor how can he get bread [00:24.07] [00:24.67]I will sing and make merry withal [00:29.93] [00:32.94]It was of two young brethren two young brethren born [00:39.39] [00:39.95]It was of two young brethren born [00:45.18] [00:45.96]One he was a shepherd and a tender of sheep [00:51.75] [00:52.69]The other a planter of corn [00:57.72] [01:00.58]We will rile it we will toil it through mud and through clay [01:06.92] [01:07.50]We will plough it up deeper and low [01:12.46] [01:13.15]Then after comes the seedsman his corn for to sow [01:19.52] [01:20.19]And the harrows to rake it in rows [01:25.18] [01:28.42]There is April there is May there is June and july [01:34.88] [01:35.57]What a pleasure it is for to see the corn grow [01:41.82] [01:42.67]In August we will reap it we will cut sheathe and bind it [01:49.04] [01:49.80]And go down with our scythes for to mow [01:54.95] [01:58.24]And after we have reaped it of every sheaf [02:03.88]And gathered up every ear [02:08.39] [02:09.24]With a drop of good beer boys and our hearts full of cheer [02:15.30] [02:15.97]We will beg them another good year [02:21.30] [02:24.15]Our barns they are full our fields they are cleared [02:30.42] [02:30.98]Good health to our master and friends [02:35.93] [02:36.59]We will make no more to do but we will plough and we'll sow [02:42.88] [02:43.58]And provide for the very next year