The Barley-Mow Song. II

(Suffolk Version.)

[The peasantry of Suffolk sing the following version of the Barley-Mow Song.]

Here’s a health to the barley mow!
   Here’s a health to the man
Who very well can
   Both harrow and plow and sow!

When it is well sown
See it is well mown,
Both raked and gavelled clean,
And a barn to lay it in.
He’s a health to the man
Who very well can
Both thrash and fan it clean!