All Jolly Fellows That Handles the Plough

DESCRIPTION: Singer and fellow ploughmen finish their work; they will unyoke their horse and groom him, after which the (singer/master) promises them a jug of ale. At dawn they will begin again. Refrain: "You're all jolly fellows that follows (handles) the plough"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads 148)
KEYWORDS: farming work drink nonballad horse worker pride boss
FOUND IN: Britain(England(All),Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (12 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "ALL JOLLY FELLOWS THAT FOLLOW THE PLOUGH"
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #158, p. 1, "The Jolly Fellows Who Follow the Plough"; #161, p. 2, "The Jolly Fellows Who Follow the Plough" (1 text plus 1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan3 418, "We Are All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Kennedy-FolksongsOfBritainAndIreland 241, "All Jolly Fellows" (1 text, 1 tune)
Broadwood/Maitland-EnglishCountySongs, pp. 64-65, "Twas Early One Morning" (1 text, 2 tunes)
MacCollSeeger 102, "All Jolly Fellows That Handles the Plough" (1 text, 1 tune)
Williams-FolkSongsOfTheUpperThames, pp. 207-208, "We're All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" (1 text) (also Williams-Wiltshire-WSRO Ox 238)
Palmer-EnglishCountrySongbook, #3, "All Jolly Fellows thet Follow the Plow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardham-EastRidingSongster 11, pp. 15, 46-47, "We're All Jolly Fellows Who Follow the Plow" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #63, "Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud/Bishop-NewPenguinBookOfEnglishFolkSongs #91, "All Jolly Fellows Who Follow the Plow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Henderson-VictorianStreetBallads, pp. 117-118, "We are all Jolly Fellows that follow the Plough" (1 text)
Roud #346
RECORDINGS:
Fred Jordan, "We're All Jolly Fellows as Follow the Plough" (on Voice05)
Will Noble, Pippa Noble, "We're All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough" (Piotr-Archive #60, recorded 08/02/2021)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 148, "All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" ("When four o'clock comes then up we rise"), J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Harding B 16(301a), Harding B 11(3226), Harding B 11(4369), Harding B 11(4370), Harding B 11(4371), "We Are All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Ploughman (II)" (subject)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Jolly Fellows Who Follow the Plough
We Are Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough
File: K241

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