FARMER'S BOY
"To be a Farmer's Boy" was a song sung across Norfolk on Plough Monday.
Farmer's Boy Lyric:
The sun went down beyond yon hill, across the dreary moor
Weary and lame a boy there came up to a farmer’s door
Can you tell me if any there be that will give me employ:
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, to be a farmer’s boy,
To be a farmer’s boy
My father’s dead, my mother’s left with her five children small
And what is worse for mother still I’m the eldest of them all
Though little I be I fear no work if you will me employ
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, to be a farmer’s boy,
To be a farmer’s boy
In course of time he grew a man, the poor old farmer died
He left the lad the farm he had, the daughter for his bride
The boy that was, now farmer is, he smiles and thinks with joy
That lucky day he came that way to be a farmer’s boy
To be a farmer’s boy
Farmer's Boy Lyric:
The sun went down beyond yon hill, across the dreary moor
Weary and lame a boy there came up to a farmer’s door
Can you tell me if any there be that will give me employ:
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, to be a farmer’s boy,
To be a farmer’s boy
My father’s dead, my mother’s left with her five children small
And what is worse for mother still I’m the eldest of them all
Though little I be I fear no work if you will me employ
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, to be a farmer’s boy,
To be a farmer’s boy
In course of time he grew a man, the poor old farmer died
He left the lad the farm he had, the daughter for his bride
The boy that was, now farmer is, he smiles and thinks with joy
That lucky day he came that way to be a farmer’s boy
To be a farmer’s boy
Nelson Academy sing "Farmer's Boy"