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Lyr Req: name of sheep shearing song

02 Mar 26 - 09:29 PM (#4236443)
Subject: Lyr Req: name of sheep shearing song
From: GUEST,mg

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


02 Mar 26 - 11:23 PM (#4236447)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: name of sheep shearing song
From: Reinhard

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)