The Wark O’ The Weavers ..........HomepageA Scottish song you can hear and join in - at the Saturday night ceilidh in the Lade Inn - Kilmahog near Callander, Scotland

  1. Where a’ met the gither here to sit and to crack
    Wi’ oor glasses in oor hand and oor wark on oor back
    And there's no a trade among them that can either mend or mak
    If it wisnae for the wark o’ the weavers
    Yit wisnae for the weavers whit wid we do
    We wadna hae claith made o' oor woo'
    We widnae hae a coat, neither black or blue
    If it wisnaefor the wark o' the weavers
  2. The hireman cheils they mock us and crack aye aboots
    They say we are thin faced, bleached like cloots
    But yet for a their mockery they canna dae withoots
    Na' they cann want the wark o’ the weavers
    Chorus
  3. There’ s oor wrichts and oor slaters and glaziers ana
    Oor doctors and oor ministers and them that lives by the law
    And oor friends in South America though them we never saw
    But we ken they wear the wark o' the weavers
    Chorus
  4. There’s oor sojers and their sailors, we ken they're a' bauld
    But if they hadnae clais, faith, they couldna fecht for cauld
    The high, the low, the rich, the puir, a body young and auld
    They widna want the wark o’ the weavers

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