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Title
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All jolly fellows that follow the plough
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Singer
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Unknown
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Notes
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E E Balch - 'The unloading of the last waggon of hay is celebrated by a sing song round the rick in the long summer twilight; and the harvest supper still follows the harvest on those farms where its place has not been taken by extra harvest money. These are the occasions when quaint old country songs may be heard. The history of 'Bold Reynard' wanders through many verses, from the time when he disturbs the slumbers of 'old Mother Wibble-Wobble' till his children pick the bones of the grey goose 'without fork or a knife'. The fox in Froude's 'Cat's Pilgrimage' has not a greater contempt for human antagonism than has Sir Reynard, for when the farmer 'blew his horn both loud and shrill', he regards it only as an additional triumph to his progress with the grey goose -
'And the music played me down through the town O!
The 'Ploughboy' may be quoted as a typical song.'
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2008.
