Name: The Carpenter's Son
Duration: P00H04M50S
Description: Setting of Housman's poem from 'A Shropshire Lad'. The playout piece is essentially the same tune, but also exists as a separate recording which is called 'Carpentry'

The Carpenter's Son

from So Sound You Sleep (More Tears of Morning) by David A. Harley

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Setting of Housman's poem from 'A Shropshire Lad'. The playout piece is essentially the same tune, but also exists as a separate recording which is called 'Carpentry'

lyrics

`Here the hangman stops his cart:
Now the best of friends must part.
Fare you well, for ill fare I:
Live, lads, and I will die.

`Oh, at home had I but stayed
‘Prenticed to my father’s trade,
Had I stuck to plane and adze,
I had not been lost, my lads.

`Then I might have built perhaps
Gallows-trees for other chaps,
Never dangled on my own,
Had I left but ill alone.

`Now, you see, they hang me high,
And the people passing by
Stop to shake their fists and curse;
So ’tis come from ill to worse.

`Here hang I, and right and left
Two poor fellows hang for theft:
All the same’s the luck we prove,
Though the midmost hangs for love.

`Comrades all, that stand and gaze,
Walk henceforth in other ways;
See my neck and save your own:
Comrades all, leave ill alone.

`Make some day a decent end,
Shrewder fellows than your friend.
Fare you well, for ill fare I:
Live, lads, and I will die.’

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from So Sound You Sleep (More Tears of Morning), released February 8, 2023
Vocal, guitar and tune by David A. Harley. Words by A.E. Housman

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com