Poverty+Knock+(extract)

=Poet Unknown =

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Poverty, poverty knock! Me loom is a-sayin' all day. Poverty, poverty knock! Gaffer's * too skinny * to pay.

Poverty, poverty knock! Keepin' one eye on the clock. Ah know ah can guttle * When ah hear me shuttle * Go: poverty, poverty knock!

Up every mornin' at five. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ah wonder that we keep alive. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tired an' yawnin' on the cold mornin', <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It's back to the dreary old drive.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Oh dear, we're going to be late. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gaffer is stood at the gate. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We're out of pocket, our wages they're <range type="comment" id="742569">docket * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We'll 'a' to buy grub on the <range type="comment" id="760167">slate *.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">An' when our wages they'll bring, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We're often short of a <range type="comment" id="91396">string *, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> While we are <range type="comment" id="340234">fratchin'* wi' gaffer for snatchin ', <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We know to his <range type="comment" id="74817">brass * he will cling.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We've got to wet our own yarn <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">By dippin' it into the <range type="comment" id="218821">tarn *, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It's wet an' soggy an' makes us feel groggy, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">An' there's mice in that dirty old barn.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Sometimes a shuttle flies out, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gives some poor woman a clout. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ther she lies bleedin' but nobody's 'eddin'. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Who's goin' t'carry her out?

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Precise date of writing is unknown. First heard in approximately 1850. First published in a collection of folk poetry in the 1960s.