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 wherever I go, here's the jolly bold weaver
I'm a hand to my trade I fell in with a factory maid And if I could but her win I'd stand beside her and by steam
My to me scornful said "How you fancy a factory maid?" When you have girls fine and gay Dressed unto the Queen of May
As for your fine I don't care If I but enjoy my dear I'd in the factory all the day And she and I'd keep our in play
I went to my bedroom door often times I had been 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 lass although she be Blest is the man enjoys she
O thoughts come to me mind As I turn down the so fine And I seen her two standing so Like two white all covered with snow
The loom goes click and the loom clack The shuttle flies forward and then flies The weaver's so bent that he's to crack a wearisome trade is the weaver
The yarn is made cloth at last The of the weft they are made quite fast The weaver's labors are now all Such a trade is the weaver
Where are the girls, I tell you plain The girls have to weave by steam And if you'd find them you must rise at And trudge to the mill in the early
Oh, I was a tailor, I carried my bodkin and shears When I was a weaver, I carried my and my gear My also, my small clothes and reed in my hand And wherever I go, the jolly bold weaver again