Oh, when I was a tailor, I carried my and shears I was a weaver, I carried my roods and my gear My temples also, my small clothes and in my hand And I go, here's the jolly bold weaver again
I'm a hand weaver to my I fell in love with a factory And if I could but her win I'd stand beside her and by steam
My father to me said "How could you a factory maid?" When you have girls fine and gay Dressed unto the Queen of May
As for your fine girls I don't If I could but my dear I'd stand in the all the day And she and I'd keep our shuttles in
I went to my love's door Where often times I had before But I could not nor yet get in The pleasant bed my love lies in
How can you say a pleasant bed When nowt lies there but a maid? And a factory although she be is the man that enjoys she
O pleasant come to me mind As I turn down the sheets so And I her two breasts standing so Like two white all covered with snow
The loom goes click and the loom goes The shuttle flies forward and then back The weaver's so that he's like to crack a wearisome trade is the weaver
The yarn is into cloth at last The ends of the weft they are made fast The labors are now all past Such a wearisome is the weaver
Where are the girls, I will you plain The girls have gone to by steam And if you'd find them you must rise at And trudge to the in the early morn
Oh, when I was a tailor, I my bodkin and shears When I was a weaver, I carried my and my gear My temples also, my small clothes and reed in my And I go, here's the jolly bold weaver again