Andyturner: version from Harry Barling

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version from Harry Barling

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'''The Thresherman'''

[[Roud 19]]

Collected by [[Francis Collinson]] from [[Harry Barling]] of South Willesborough, Ashford, [[Kent]] 3/12/1942.

#It’s of a noble gentleman who lived down in Kent Close by where lived a thresher whose family was great Whose family was great though most of them were small And he’d nothing but hard labour to maintain them all 
#At times when he comes home from work as tired as could be He takes his youngest child and dances on his knee While others they come round with their sweet flattering toys And that’s the very comfort that a poor man enjoys 
#The noble gentleman he met the thresherman one day And boldly stepped up to him and these words then did say You have in all large family, we know it to be true And how is it you maintain they so well as you do? 
#Well I can reap and mow, and it’s I can plough and sow And sometimes it’s hedging and to ditching I do go There’s nothing comes amiss to me, the harrow or the plough And so I do maintain them by the sweat of my brow 
#My wife she is willing to join in the yoke We live just like two turtle doves, each other don’t provoke The times are very hard and we are very poor And can scarce keep the wolf and bear from the door 
#Well done, you noble thresherman, you speak well of your wife I will make you live happy all the rest of your life There forty-five good acres of land I’ll give to thee To maintain you and your wife and your sweet family 
#God bless that nobleman, he’s dead and he is gone I hope his soul’s in heaven to gain the better end The best one gone before us, and we’re left here to mend So we must follow after them as well as we can

[[Category: Song]]

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