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The Ploughman
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My name it is Jack, an’ a Ploug-hman my trade? nae Kirk or State matters e’er
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bloom an’ Contentment is wreath’d round my brow, an’ all my delight is in holding the Plough.
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M ha’s out or who’s in amahg Tory or Whigs,
Is naething to me? I will turn up my Rig’s?
Nae party or penfion, fhall e’er mak’ me bow.
For I’m Independent by holding the Plough.
Ambition I banifh, an’ poorith defy.
There’s nane on the Earth is fae happy as I?
The pleafures of Nature, a’ feafons I view.
So bleft is the man that attendeth the Plough.
When, Winters blow furly,my horfes they reft;
At Smiddy or Mill, I can rant wi’the beft?
With friend or with neighbour I quaff the brownCo
Enjoying the fweets of my holding the Plough,
Our Nobles may croud to the buftles at Court;
I wadna exchange them,for Country fport.
Spring, Summer an’Harveft fuccefsive renew,
The fruits of my labour? by holding the Plough.
What tho’,whenI happen to gae to the Town,
The lafsies there, ca’s me a Country Clown?
But fattens an’ filks they wad ha’e unco few,
Without the effects of my holding the Plough.
My Peggy at hame, is far better than they,
She’s tentimes mair frank, an’is equaly gay,/
Eaith Carding an’Spinning fow weel fhe can do,
An’lo’es the young laddie that follows the Plough.
For the German Flute.