《The Honest Labourer》歌词

[00:00:00] The Honest Labourer - Bob Cooper/Ron Copper

[00:00:01] It was of an honest labourer

[00:00:05] As I've heard people say

[00:00:09] He goes out in the morning

[00:00:12] And he works hard all the day

[00:00:16] And he's got seven children

[00:00:20] And most of them are small

[00:00:23] He has nothing but hard labour

[00:00:27] To maintain them all

[00:00:31] A gentleman one evening walking

[00:00:35] Out to take the air

[00:00:38] He met with this poor labouring man

[00:00:42] And solemnly declared

[00:00:45] I think you are that thresher-man

[00:00:49] Yes sir Said he that's true

[00:00:53] How do you get your living as well as you do

[00:01:02] Sometimes I do reap

[00:01:05] And sometimes I do mow

[00:01:09] At other times to hedging

[00:01:13] And to ditching I do go

[00:01:17] There is nothing comes amiss to

[00:01:20] Me from the harrow to the plough

[00:01:25] That's how I get my living by the sweat of my brow

[00:01:33] When I go home at night just as tired as I be

[00:01:41] I take my youngest child

[00:01:45] And I dance him on my knee

[00:01:49] They others they come around me

[00:01:52] With their prittle-prattling toys

[00:01:56] And that's the only

[00:01:58] Comfort a working man enjoys

[00:02:04] My wife and I are willing

[00:02:08] And we join both in one yoke

[00:02:12] We live like to two turtle doves

[00:02:15] And not one word provoke

[00:02:19] Although the times are very hard

[00:02:23] And we are very poor

[00:02:27] We can scarcely keep the raving

[00:02:30] Wolf away from the door

[00:02:36] Well done you honest labourer

[00:02:40] You speak well of your wife

[00:02:44] I hope you will live happy

[00:02:47] All the days of your life

[00:02:52] Here is forty acres of

[00:02:54] Good land which I will give to thee

[00:02:59] Which will help to maintain your

[00:03:04] Sweet wife and little family