Song Lyrics Unknown - Four Pence A Day    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Four Pence A Day Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Four Pence A Day Theme ID: 4103 Album: N/A FOUR PENCE A DAY The ore is waiting in the tubs the snow's upon the fell Canny folk are sleeping yet but lead is reet to sell Come me little washer lad come let's awa We're bound down to slavery for four pence a day It's early in the morning we rise at five o'clock And the little slaves come to the door to knock, knock, knock Come me little washer lad, come let's awa It's very hard to work for four pence a day My father was a miner and lived down in the town Twas hard work and poverty that always kept him down He aimed for me to go to school, but brass he could not pay So i had to go to the washing rake for four pence a day My mother rises out of bed with tears on her cheeks Puts my wallet on my shoulders, which has to serve a week It often fills her great big heart when she unto me does say I never thought you would have worked for four pence a day Fourpence a day, me lads, and very hard to work And never a pleasant look from a gruffy looking Turk His conscience it may fall and his heart it may give way Then he'll raise our wages to nine pence a day see also FOURPND @work @mine sung by MacColl on Steamwhistle Ballads filename[ FOURPENC play.exe FOURPND SF ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Freedom Calling, Freedoms On The Wallaby, Freight Train, French Canadian Anthem Text, French Native Anthem Text, Friendly Fac And Green Beret, Frig The Flying Fortress, Friggin In The Riggin, Froggy He, From A Distanceby Julie Gold, Frosty The Snowman, Frozen Logger, Funeral Party, Funny Happy Birthday Song, Furry Day Carol, Fword, G Suits And Parachutes, Gairdner Child, Gal I Left Behind Me, Gallowa Hills, Galveston Flood, Galway Shawl, Gambia Anthem Text, Game Of Cards, Gaol Song, Garden Where The Praties Grow, Garlic Song, Garryowen, Garton Mothers Lullaby, Gather Up The Pots, Gaudete, Gee Ma I Want To Go Home, General Guiness, General Guinness, General Taylor, Generations Of Change, Gentle Annie, Gently Johnny My Jingalo, Geordie, Geordies Penker, George Collins, Georges Son, Germany Anthem Text, Germany Native Anthem Text, Get Away Old Man, Ghana Anthem Text, Gim Grinning Ghosts, God Rest Ye Marry Gentlemen, Goober Peas, Good Ale, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy