《The Old Thrashing Mill》歌词

[00:00:00] The Old Thrashing Mill - Brier

[00:00:06] As I walked down the road on this fine autumn morn

[00:00:10] I can see the great combine collecting the corn

[00:00:15] And my mind wanders back in a moment of joy

[00:00:19] To the day of the thresher when I was a boy

[00:00:23] All over the valley you could hear the strange sound

[00:00:28] Of that mighty machine on its annual round

[00:00:33] All the men in the town land would follow at will

[00:00:38] And they'd all lend a hand with the old threshin' mill

[00:00:42] So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green

[00:00:46] Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between

[00:00:52] For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill

[00:00:56] For it makes a man hungry the old threshing mill

[00:01:01] There were two on the thresher and two on the stack

[00:01:06] And the man with the fork kept the straw flyin' back

[00:01:10] There were bottles of porter and plenty of fags

[00:01:14] And old Larry Andy looked after the bags

[00:01:18] Then a few of the boys built the straw in the reek

[00:01:23] While the young ones were found playing hide-and-go-seek

[00:01:28] And myself and my brother with the dogs and the cats

[00:01:33] Had the time of our lives chasing after the rats

[00:01:37] So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green

[00:01:41] Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between

[00:01:47] For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill

[00:01:51] For it makes a man hungry the old threshin' mill

[00:02:02] But the times keep on changing and nothing stands still

[00:02:06] Larry Emdy is gone like his old threshin' mill

[00:02:10] And the most of the workers I knew as a child

[00:02:15] Have reaped the great harvest for which they have toiled

[00:02:19] No more in the valley we'll hear that machine

[00:02:23] For just like the corn crate they're gone from the scene

[00:02:29] But it makes me feel sad as I dream of it still

[00:02:33] For I long for the dear sound of the old threshin' mill

[00:02:37] So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green

[00:02:42] Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between

[00:02:47] For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill

[00:02:51] For it makes a man hungry the old threshin' mill

[00:02:56] So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green

[00:03:00] Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between

[00:03:05] For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill

[00:03:10] For it makes a man hungry the old threshin' mill