The Weaver-Steeleye Span

[ti:The Weaver] [ar:Steeleye Span] [al:The Collection - Steeleye Span In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Weaver - Steeleye Span [00:11.03]Oh when I was a tailor I carried my bodkin and shears [00:22.84]When I was a weaver I carried my roods and my gear [00:33.71]My temples also my small clothes and reed in my hand [00:44.59]And wherever I go here's the jolly bold weaver again [00:56.09] [01:20.13]I'm a hand weaver to my trade [01:22.84]I fell in love with a factory maid [01:25.41]And if I could but her favour win [01:28.17]I'd stand beside her and weave by steam [01:31.57] [01:32.50]My father to me scornful said [01:35.13]"How could you fancy a factory maid " [01:37.88]When you could have girls fine and gay [01:40.81]Dressed like unto the Queen of May [01:44.45] [01:44.95]As for your fine girls I don't care [01:47.76]If I could but enjoy my dear [01:50.40]I'd stand in the factory all the day [01:53.15]And she and I'd keep our shuttles in play [01:57.95] [02:22.45]I went to my love's bedroom door [02:25.13]Where often times I had been before [02:27.71]But I could not speak nor yet get in [02:30.59]The pleasant bed that my love lies in [02:33.93] [02:34.86]How can you say it's a pleasant bed [02:37.44]When nowt lies there but a factory maid [02:40.22]And a factory lass although she be [02:42.93]Blest is the man that enjoys she [02:47.32]O pleasant thoughts come to me mind [02:50.09]As I turn down the sheets so fine [02:52.71]And I seen her two breasts standing so [02:55.49]Like two white hills all covered with snow [02:59.36] [03:25.39]The loom goes click and the loom goes clack [03:27.91]The shuttle flies forward and then flies back [03:30.72]The weaver's so bent that he's like to crack [03:33.46]Such a wearisome trade is the weaver [03:37.95]The yarn is made into cloth at last [03:40.62]The ends of the weft they are made quite fast [03:43.53]The weaver's labors are now all past [03:46.22]Such a wearisome trade is the weaver [03:48.94] [03:50.56]Where are the girls I will tell you plain [03:53.21]The girls have gone to weave by steam [03:56.04]And if you'd find them you must rise at dawn [03:58.85]And trudge to the mill in the early morn [04:04.36]Oh when I was a tailor I carried my bodkin and shears [04:15.91]When I was a weaver I carried my roods and my gear [04:26.90]My temples also my small clothes and reed in my hand [04:38.80]And wherever I go here's the jolly bold weaver again