One More Stone Lad

By Ossy Gobbiner

Thu, 02 Jul 2015
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One more stone lad he cried

Then we’ll finish for the day

One more stone lad hurry up now

Bread and wages, bills to pay

One more stone lad

Just another yard or so to go

One more stone lad, knuckle down son

Gaffers going to dock our pay

One more stone lad

Drovers soon will be passing by

Shepherds flock needs place of shelter

One more stone lad, come on try

One more stone lad

Watch its grit-stone ribs expand

One more stone lad, we’re nearly done now

Soon we’ll reach the Promised Land

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Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Gives a real feel of the grit of hard labour, and pressing on what seemed like beyond the possible ( a bit like marathon runners keeping going beyond the pain threshold, but hard physical labour must be something much more). And gives a feel for the place. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Bee on

I felt the effort, and heard the encouragement.

Bee

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Isn't it always one more stone?  The grind of hard labour.

Submitted by lenchenelf on

I hear this, as each piece of a drystone wall: chosen, napped, tapped into place, marks a space on the land. Good. xxxxxxx