It's on the YouTube video #MC50 : Waterson:Carthy "Frost & Fire Live" 2006 posted by Kev Boyd in his Martin Carthy blog. The notes to the video say it's called "The Quern Song", and it's sung by The Devil's Interval with Emily Portman in lead. I found lyrics somewhere on the net where it is called "Never Be Still (Harvest Song)", the words are attributed to Alfred Perceval Graves. These are the actual words Emily sings: Maids at morn, grind the good corn Each in her mill, with a will In go the oats, wheats and pearly barley Down in a shower falls the flour Winding strong, grinding all day long Round, round and around goes the mill Grinding turn about till the meal is out Must never ever stand still Those hands that are the strongest Will find a welcome here And they who work the longest Shall earn the best cheer repeat chorus
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