Graham Irwin - The Farmer's Boy - with lyrics and guitar chords in the description

Graham Irwin sings The Farmer's Boy accompanied on a 12-string guitar. This is a traditional English folk song that probably dates from the beginning of the 19th century. LYRICS and CHORDS: G C D The sun had set behind yon hill, across yon dreary moor A D A D A7 D When weary and lame a boy there came up to a farmer’s door D7 G D D7 Can you tell me if any there be that will give me employ G C G D G To plough and sow and reap and mow and be a farmer’s boy C D G And be a farmer’s boy? My father’s dead, my mother’s left with five children great and small And what is worse for mother still, I’m the eldest of them all Though little I be, I would labour hard if you’ll give me employ To plough and sow and reap and mow and be a farmer’s boy. To be a farmer’s boy. Come try the lad, the mistress said. Let him no further seek Oh father do, the daughter cried, as the tears ran down her cheek For those who would work ’tis hard to want and to wander for employ Don’t turn him away, but let him stay and be a farmer’s boy. To be a farmer’s boy. The farmer’s boy grew up a man and the good old farmer died He left the lad the farm he had and the daughter for his bride And now the boy a farmer is and he smiles and thinks with joy Of the lucky day he came that way to be a farmer’s boy. To be a farmer’s boy.