The Handweaver And The Factory Maid-Meridian

[ti:The Handweaver And The Factory Maid] [ar:Meridian] [al:Second] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Handweaver And The Factory Maid - Meridian [00:04.98]I am a hand weaver to my trade [00:08.52]I fell in love with a factory maid [00:12.49]And if I could brought her favour gain [00:16.15]I'd sit beside her and weave by steam [00:20.51] [00:22.13]My father to me scornful said [00:26.06]How could you fancy a factory maid [00:29.83]When you could have girls both fine and gay [00:33.68]All dressed like unto the Queen of May [00:38.54] [00:39.59]As for your fine girls I don't care [00:43.43]If I could but enjoy my dear [00:47.31]I'd sit in the factory all the day [00:51.16]And she and [00:52.19]I'd be our shuttles in play [00:56.60] [01:10.60]I went to my love's bedroom door [01:14.41]Where I had oft times been before [01:18.23]But I could not speak nor yet get in [01:22.05]The pleasant bed where my love lay in [01:25.95]How can you call it a pleasant bed [01:29.64]When naught lies there but a factory maid [01:33.66]A factory maid although she be [01:37.60]Blessed be the man who enjoys she [01:42.23] [01:43.88]Pleasant thoughts ran though my mind [01:47.56]When I turned down her sheets so fine [01:51.20]And see her two breasts standing so [01:55.04]Like two white hills all covered in snow [01:59.29] [02:00.76]Where are the girls [02:02.45]I'll tell you plain [02:04.75]The girls have all gone to weave by steam [02:08.44]And if you find them [02:10.34]You must rise at dawn [02:12.48]And trudge to the mill in the early morn [02:17.90] [02:53.26]I am a hand weaver to my trade [02:57.15]I fell in love with a factory maid [03:00.83]And if I could but her favour gain [03:04.73]I'd sit beside her and weave by steam