The version that I remember, from these Oh so many years, is David Wheeler's just above, but in a different order. How dreary the farm and the meadows The sheep pens are gloomy and grey Now the one bit-of-fun, in the years dreary run Has by science been taken away I've just given birth to a heifer And of pride and of milk I am full But it's sad to relate, that my lacteal state was not brought about by a bull No, I've never been naughty. I swear it! In spite of the calf that I've borne. By Farmer Brown's tractor, I'm virgo intacta I've never had a bull by the horn! I know that the farm is a business, In which we must all pull our weight And I'd pull! Oh, I'd pull! For a strongly-built Bull. It's this phony arrangement I hate! Now, it mustn't be thought that I'm jealous, And there are things a cow shouldn't say, But those Land Army tarts, who handle our parts Still get it the old-fashioned way! Land Army. A British quasi-military service for females during WW2, I think.
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