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Thread #146242   Message #3519650
Posted By: Max Johnson
27-May-13 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Songs, poems etc about ploughmen/boys
Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs, poems etc about ploughmen/boys
Threadbare Consort used to sing several ploughing songs.

The Painful Plough:
They must have bread and biscuit, rice pudding, flour and peas
To feed our jolly sailors as they sail o'er the seas
And every man that stands here must own to what is true:
They cannot sail the ocean without the painful plough.


My favourite though, will always be the well-known 'Ox-Plough Song.