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First Line: There's high and low, there's rich and poor
Last Line: And heaven bless the pleughman!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness
Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen


THERE'S high and low, there's rich and poor,
There's trades and crafts eneuch, man;
But, east and west, his trade's the best
That kens to guide the pleugh, man.

Then come, weel speed my pleughman lad,
And hey my merry pleughman:
Of a' the trades that I do ken,
Commend me to the pleughman!

His dreams are sweet upon his bed,
His cares are light and few, man;
His mother's blessing's on his head,
That tents her weel -- the pleughman.

The lark sae sweet, that starts to meet
The morning fresh and new, man --
Blithe though she be, as blithe is he,
That sings as sweet -- the pleughman.

All fresh and gay, at dawn of day,
Their labours they renew, man;
Heaven bless the seed, and bless the soil,
And Heaven bless the pleughman!





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