The Brisk and Bonny Lad-The Copper Family

[ti:The Brisk and Bonny Lad] [ar:The Copper Family] [al:Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Brisk and Bonny Lad - The Copper Family [00:00.73]I am a brisk and bonny lad [00:03.52]And free from care and strife [00:06.57]And sweetly as the hours pass I love a country life [00:12.48]At wake or fair I'm often [00:14.76]There midst pleasure to be seen [00:17.92] [00:19.39]Though poor I am contented [00:22.37]And as happy as a Queen [00:27.78] [00:29.54]I rise up in the morning my labour to pursue [00:35.30]And with my yoke and milking pails [00:38.19]I trudge the morning dew [00:41.72]My cows I milk and then [00:44.18]I taste how sweet the nature yields [00:48.92]The lark she sings to [00:51.40]Welcome me across the flowery fields [00:59.56] [01:00.14]And in the time of harvest how cheerfully we go [01:05.59] [01:06.27]Some with hooks and [01:07.75]Some with crooks and some with scythes to mow [01:12.62]And when our corn is free [01:15.00]From harm we have not far to roam [01:19.00] [01:20.40]And We'll all away to celebrate [01:25.34] [01:25.92]The welcome Harvest Home