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