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Track : The Workhouse Boy
Artist : The Halliard
Album : Broadside Songs
The Workhouse Boy by The Halliard from album Broadside Songs
Duration : 3 minutes & 18 seconds.
Listener : 36 peoples.
Played : 215 times and counting.
The cloth was laid in the workhouse halls
The greatcoats hung on the whitewashed walls
The paupers all were blythe and gay
Keeping their Christmas holiday
And we all of us say it and we say it with sneers
Jamie's been murdered by the overseers
When the master he said with a murderous leer
You'll all get fat on your Christmas cheer
And each by his looks he seemed to say
I'll have more soup on this Christmas day
And we all of us say it and we say it with sneers
Jamie's been murdered by the overseers
At length all of us to bed were sent
A boy was missing and in search we went
We sought him high and we sought him low
We sought him with faces of grief and woe
And we all of us say it and we say it with sneers
Jamie's been murdered by the overseers
We sought him that hour and we sought him that night
We sought him in fear and we sought him in fright
When I heard a young pauper who then did cry
We'll all have to starve till we find that boy
And we all of us say it and we say it with sneers
Jamie's been murdered by the overseers
At length the soup copper repairs did need
The coppersmith came and there he seed
A pile of bones lay a-sizzling there
And the leg of the breeches the boy did wear
And we all of us say it and we say it with sneers
Jamie's been murdered by the overseers
And we all of us say it and we say it with sneers
Jamie's been murdered by the overseers
