The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24176   Message #273719
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
08-Aug-00 - 03:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: We plough and sow...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We plough and sow...
It's The Song of the Lower Classes; a 19th. century Chartist poem by Ernest Jones.  I haven't heard it sung to that tune, though; Martin Carthy set it to the hymn tune Otford and recorded it on "Out of the Cut" (1982), which is where I know it from.

Malcolm