{"id":6692,"date":"2020-11-06T12:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=6692"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:16:54","slug":"when-the-cock-begins-to-crow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/when-the-cock-begins-to-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"When the cock begins to crow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Jump out of bed<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1880<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Linn \/ R. Howard<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN12895<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Linn<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Scott, Harry 1959 England : Bedfordshire
Pardon, Walter 1978 Norfolk
unknown singer, collected by Alfred Wiliams<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Many sluggards I have seen\nOf many I have read\nWho waste away their precious time\nBy being fond of bed;\nBut if you will take my advice -\nYou'll find it good and true -\nHow to gain both health and wealth\nI'll quickly tell to you.\n\nJump out of bed, jump out of bed,\nFor lying long looks lazy,\nIf the morn be wet or dry,\nOr if it should be hazy;\nLight or dark, get up with the lark,\nDon't care for frost or snow.\nJump out of bed, jump out of bed,\nWhen the cock begins to crow.<\/em>\n\nI never saw a lazy man\nI could depend upon,\nI never saw a lazy man\nWho ever did get on;\nIdle and inactive\nThey will lie in bed all day,\nFor they prefer just like the sloth\nTo sleep their time away.\n\nI love to see the farmer\nIn the fields at early morn,\nHe looks so gay and happy\nAs he works among the corn;\nEarly off to bed he goes,\nToo long he never sleeps,\nFor well he knows the adage -\nHe must sow before he reaps.\n\nSo if you would be healthy,\nWealthy, prosperous and wise,\nNever lie and slumber\nWhen the sun is in the skies;\nSpend your evenings soberly,\nAnd don't stay out too late,\nBe early up to sow the seed\nAnd the harvest will be great.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A music Hall song written and sung by Harry Linn <\/a>, which appears in multiple broadsides and some sheets Not to be confused with the song of the same name by Purcell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The song was sung as part of a series of fragments by Walter Pardon alongside\u00a0Wake Up Johnny<\/a>\u00a0, Saving them all for Mary<\/a>, and Down by the old abbey ruins<\/a>. You can here them at the\u00a0Vaughn Williams Memorial Library<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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