Two Brethren-Dolly Collins

[ti:Two Brethren] [ar:Shirley Collins/Dolly Collins] [al:Snapshots] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Two Brethren - Dolly Collins [00:05.37]Come all jolly ploughmen and help me to sing [00:11.42] [00:12.17]I will sing in the praise of you all [00:17.09] [00:17.70]If a man he don't labor how can he get bread [00:23.91] [00:24.51]I will sing and make merry withal [00:29.77] [00:32.78]It was of two young brethren two young brethren born [00:39.23] [00:39.79]It was of two young brethren born [00:45.02] [00:45.80]One he was a shepherd and a tender of sheep [00:51.59] [00:52.53]The other a planter of corn [00:57.56] [01:00.42]We will rile it we will toil it through mud and through clay [01:06.76] [01:07.34]We will plough it up deeper and low [01:12.29] [01:12.98]Then after comes the seedsman his corn for to sow [01:19.35] [01:20.02]And the harrows to rake it in rows [01:25.01] [01:28.25]There is April there is May there is June and july [01:34.71] [01:35.40]What a pleasure it is for to see the corn grow [01:41.65] [01:42.50]In August we will reap it we will cut sheathe and bind it [01:48.87] [01:49.63]And go down with our scythes for to mow [01:54.78] [01:58.07]And after we have reaped it of every sheaf [02:03.71]And gathered up every ear [02:08.22] [02:09.07]With a drop of good beer boys and our hearts full of cheer [02:15.13] [02:15.80]We will beg them another good year [02:21.13] [02:23.98]Our barns they are full our fields they are cleared [02:30.25] [02:30.81]Good health to our master and friends [02:35.76] [02:36.42]We will make no more to do but we will plough and we'll sow [02:42.71] [02:43.41]And provide for the very next year