Origins: Where be the horses where be the men?

Subject: Origins: Where be the horses where be the men?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 05:28 PM

I'm seeking the lyrics for this song which I heard John Haywood sing in Shropshire in the mid 1980s. John was a farmer and he may have written the song, all I can remember is the chorus:

Where be the horses?
Where be the men?
Machinery now rules the day
The air's full of diesel
The smell of that raw
And they do a week's work in a day

Subject: RE: Origins: Where be the horses where be the men?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 05:50 PM

He may have been inspired by the story, "The Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men,"by William Morris, where appears 'Where be the horses and the men,' but I can't find a song.