O the lark in the morning she rises off her nest She goes whistling and singing with the dew all on her breast Like a jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings She comes home in the evening with the dew all on her wings Roger the ploughboy he's a bonnie blade He goes whistling and singing down by yon green glade He's met with dark-eyed Susan, she's handsome I declare She is far more enticing than the birds of the air. As he was coming home one evening from town With the meadows being green, the grass just cut down As he should chance to stumble all in the new mown hay "It's love me now or never," this bonnie lass did say So good luck to the ploughboys wherever they may be That takes the sweet maidens to sit her on their knee With a jug of strong porter you'll whistle and you'll say,? There's no life like a ploughboy's in the merry month of May