《The Honest Labourer》是Bob Copper、Unknown、Ron Copper演唱的歌曲，收錄於《English Shepherd and Farming Songs》專輯中。
基本介紹
- 外文名：The Honest Labourer
- 所屬專輯：English Shepherd and Farming Songs
- 歌曲原唱：Bob Copper、Unknown、Ron Copper
- 發行日期：1964年1月1日
歌曲歌詞
It was of an honest labourer
As I’ve heard people say
He goes out in the morning
And he works hard all the day
And he’s got seven children
And most of them are small
He has nothing but hard labour
To maintain them all
A gentleman one evening walking
Out to take the air
He met with this poor labouring man
And solemnly declared
I think you are that thresher-man
Yes sir Said he that’s true
How do you get your living as well as you do
Sometimes I do reap
And sometimes I do mow
At other times to hedging
And to ditching I do go
There is nothing comes amiss to
Me from the harrow to the plough
That’s how I get my living by the sweat of my brow
When I go home at night just as tired as I be
I take my youngest child
And I dance him on my knee
They others they come around me
With their prittle-prattling toys
And that’s the only
Comfort a working man enjoys
My wife and I are willing
And we join both in one yoke
We live like to two turtle doves
And not one word provoke
Although the times are very hard
And we are very poor
We can scarcely keep the raving
Wolf away from the door
Well done you honest labourer
You speak well of your wife
I hope you will live happy
All the days of your life
Here is forty acres of
Good land which I will give to thee
Which will help to maintain your
Sweet wife and little family
