The Weaver
I would be a weaver still
If Tories had’nae shut the mill
I’d slake my thirst my belly fill
If I was still a weaver
The Bailiff’s banging at the door
I have no cash to meet the score
I’d tak the bills and pay them o’er
If I was still a weaver
(Chorus)
Four looms, four
watch your shuttle
Four looms
Watch your end
I was just a little girl
When Mother sent me to the mill
She needed help to pay the bills
and I became a weaver
I tried to learn my duties well
The yards I wove I cannot tell
“Watch me loom for a Penny Nell”
I was the fastest weaver
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The work was hard the hours long
The shuttles sang their daily song
And then our payday came along
When I was still a weaver
The engineer was sweet on me
He tended my looms constantly
I never thought we’d married be
When I was just a weaver
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My husband’s gone my children grown
And some this world has overthrown
But what remains is all my own
Inside I’m still a weaver
They say the looms will drive you deaf
And I have little hearing left
And yet I’d give my final breath
To go back as a weaver
ch
If Tories had’nae shut the mill
I’d slake my thirst my belly fill
If I was still a weaver
The Bailiff’s banging at the door
I have no cash to meet the score
I’d tak the bills and pay them o’er
If I was still a weaver
(Chorus)
Four looms, four
watch your shuttle
Four looms
Watch your end
I was just a little girl
When Mother sent me to the mill
She needed help to pay the bills
and I became a weaver
I tried to learn my duties well
The yards I wove I cannot tell
“Watch me loom for a Penny Nell”
I was the fastest weaver
ch
The work was hard the hours long
The shuttles sang their daily song
And then our payday came along
When I was still a weaver
The engineer was sweet on me
He tended my looms constantly
I never thought we’d married be
When I was just a weaver
ch
My husband’s gone my children grown
And some this world has overthrown
But what remains is all my own
Inside I’m still a weaver
They say the looms will drive you deaf
And I have little hearing left
And yet I’d give my final breath
To go back as a weaver
ch