IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING

Is my team ploughing

That I was used to drive

And hear the harness jingle

When I was man alive

Ay the horses trample

The harness jingles now

No change though you lie under

The land you used to plough

Is my girl happy

That I thought hard to leave

And has she tired of weeping

As she lies down at eve

Ay she lies down lightly

She lies not down to weep

Your girl is well contented

Be still my lad and sleep

Is my friend hearty

Now I am thin and pine

And has he found to sleep in

A better bed than mine

Yes lad I lie easy

I lie as lads would choose

I cheer a dead mans sweetheart

Never ask me whose