The Old Thrashing Mill-Brier

[ti:The Old Thrashing Mill] [ar:Brier] [al:Sick Note] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Old Thrashing Mill - Brier [00:06.82]As I walked down the road on this fine autumn morn [00:10.03] [00:10.96]I can see the great combine collecting the corn [00:14.35] [00:15.28]And my mind wanders back in a moment of joy [00:18.54] [00:19.60]To the day of the thresher when I was a boy [00:23.03] [00:23.88]All over the valley you could hear the strange sound [00:27.09] [00:28.23]Of that mighty machine on its annual round [00:31.40] [00:33.60]All the men in the town land would follow at will [00:36.99] [00:38.02]And they'd all lend a hand with the old threshin' mill [00:41.27] [00:42.29]So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green [00:45.78] [00:46.60]Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between [00:49.83] [00:52.00]For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill [00:55.47] [00:56.34]For it makes a man hungry the old threshing mill [00:59.94] [01:01.61]There were two on the thresher and two on the stack [01:05.28] [01:06.01]And the man with the fork kept the straw flyin' back [01:09.60] [01:10.36]There were bottles of porter and plenty of fags [01:13.73] [01:14.90]And old Larry Andy looked after the bags [01:18.11] [01:18.98]Then a few of the boys built the straw in the reek [01:22.44] [01:23.31]While the young ones were found playing hide-and-go-seek [01:25.80] [01:28.73]And myself and my brother with the dogs and the cats [01:32.25] [01:33.05]Had the time of our lives chasing after the rats [01:36.44] [01:37.34]So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green [01:40.89] [01:41.71]Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between [01:45.07] [01:47.09]For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill [01:50.59] [01:51.46]For it makes a man hungry the old threshin' mill [01:54.99] [02:02.23]But the times keep on changing and nothing stands still [02:05.79] [02:06.53]Larry Emdy is gone like his old threshin' mill [02:10.09] [02:10.84]And the most of the workers I knew as a child [02:14.22] [02:15.12]Have reaped the great harvest for which they have toiled [02:18.78] [02:19.44]No more in the valley we'll hear that machine [02:22.90] [02:23.64]For just like the corn crate they're gone from the scene [02:27.28] [02:29.22]But it makes me feel sad as I dream of it still [02:32.56] [02:33.61]For I long for the dear sound of the old threshin' mill [02:37.15] [02:37.75]So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green [02:41.55] [02:42.18]Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between [02:45.44] [02:47.56]For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill [02:51.08] [02:51.86]For it makes a man hungry the old threshin' mill [02:55.69] [02:56.28]So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green [02:59.72] [03:00.53]Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between [03:03.66] [03:05.94]For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill [03:09.43] [03:10.13]For it makes a man hungry the old threshin' mill