Oxen Ploughing, The

DESCRIPTION: "Prithee, lend your jocund voices for to listen we're agreed; Come sing of songs the choicest of the life we ploughboys lead." Ploughboys hear the birds as they work; they rest when it is hot; they go home to the girls and fires at evening; all need them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1897 (Baring-Gould)
KEYWORDS: farming bird work nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South,West))
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "OXEN PLOUGHING, THE"
Palmer-EnglishCountrySongbook, #2, "The Oxen Ploughing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gundry-CanowKernow-SongsDancesFromCornwall, p. 26, "The Oxen Ploughing" (1 text, 1 tune); p. 44, "(A Cornish Ox-Driver's Song)" (1 fragment, 1 tune, filed with a group of songs under the general heading "Crowdy Crawn")
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, p. 57, "The Oxen Ploughing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hamer-GarnersGay, pp. 72-73, "Ox Plough Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #686
File: PECS002

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