Lyr Req: name of sheep shearing song

Subject: Lyr Req: name of sheep shearing song
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 09:29 PM

what is the name of this song

when the weathers too hot to be born
the master doth say as he goes on his way
tomorrow my sheep shall be shorn


here's a health to the master and flock

i'm afraid it will be past twelve o'clock

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: name of sheep shearing song
From: Reinhard
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 11:23 PM

It's The Sheep Shearing as printed in the Digital Tradition.

Roud 1582, VWML CJS2/9/1323
Collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp from Mr. Dommett, Pitminster, Somerset, 23 August 1907
One Hundred English Folksongs
(Boston: Oliver Ditson: 1916, pp.222-223)