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H. F. S. [Music]
1. Prithee lend your jocund voices, / For to listen we're agreed: / Come sing of songs the choicest, / Of the life the ploughboys lead. / There are none that live so merry / As the ploughboy does in Spring / When he hears the sweet birds whistle / And the nightingales to sing. / With my Hump-a-long! Jump-a-long! / Here drives my lad along! / Pretty, Sparkle, Berry / Good-luck, Speedwell, Cherry! / We are the lads that can follow the plough.