AND NOW I'M PAST RETIRING TIME LAYS HEAVY ON ME HAND I THINK ABOUT ME WORKING DAYS A-LABOURING ON THE LAND SAW IN THE BLINKING OF AN EYE ME CHILDHOOD DISAPPEAR AT TWELVE YEARS OLD I STARTED WORK ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE
I'VE HERDED COWS WHEN MILKING TIME WAS DAWNS FIRST EARLY LIGHT I'VE WATCHED A THOUSAND LAMBS BE BORN WHEN BITTER WAS THE NIGHT I'VE WORKED THROUGH SNOW AND DRIVING RAIN SEEN EACH DAWN OF THE YEAR WHEN I WAS JUST A WORKING LAD ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE
AND AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN THEY SIGNED ME ON FOR WAR AND SENT ME FROM THE LAND I LOVED UNTO A FOREIGN SHORE IN THE DESERTS OF NORTH AFRICA I LEARNT TO LIVE WITH FEAR AND I LONGED TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE
AND WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER WELL I LEFT THOSE BURNING SANDS SO JOYFUL FOR TO SEE AGAIN THOSE RICH AND FERTILE LANDS BUT THE COLOURS OF THE COUNTY CHANGED FROM GREEN TO BROWN I FEAR THEY'D PLOUGHED THE GRASSY MEADOWS ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE
BUT VERY SOON I FOUND THAT I WAS BACK IN WORK AGAIN AT LEARING HOW TO PULL THE PLOUGH AND GATHER IN THE GRAIN AT DRILLING AND AT REAPING SOON I LEARNED TO PERSEVERE A DIFFERENT KIND OF LABOUR ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE
AND AS MACHINES GOT FANCIER THEY HELPED TO EASE OUR LOAD BUT EVERY NEW MACHINE THAT CAME SENT TWO MEN DOWN THE ROAD THE WORK OF SEVEN FARMHANDS NOW DONE BY AN ENGINEER MACHINES ARE NOW THE LABOURERS ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE
AND NOW I'M PAST RETIRING AND ME WORKING DAYS ARE DONE AND THE FARM WHERE ME AND FATHER WORKED HAS NO WORK FOR ME SON AND FOR TO FIND EMPLOYMENT NOW HE'S FORCED TO MOVE FROM HERE I CURSE AND MOURN WHAT'S HAPPENED ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE YES I CURSE AND MOURN WHAT'S HAPPENED ON THE FARMS OF LINCOLNSHIRE
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