The Work of the Weavers

The Work of the Weavers - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

We're all met together here to sit and to crack

Wi' our glasses in our hands and our work upon our back

There's nae a trade among 'em that can mend or can mak

If it wasn't for the work of the weavers

If it was not for the weavers what would you do

You wouldn'a hae the clothes that's made of wool

You wouldn'a hae a coat of the black or the blue

If it was not for the work of the weavers

There's soldiers and there's sailors and glaziers and all

There's doctors and there's ministers and them that live by law

And our friends in sooth America though them we never saw

But we can they wear the work of the weavers

If it was not for the weavers what would you do

You wouldn'a hae the clothes that's made of wool

You wouldn'a hae a coat of the black or the blue

If it was not for the work of the weavers

Though weavin' is a trade that never can fail

As long as we need clothes for to keep another hale

So let us all be merry o'er a bicker of good ale

And we'll drink to the health of the weavers

If it was not for the weavers what would you do

You wouldn'a hae the clothes that's made of wool

You wouldn'a hae a coat of the black or the blue

If it was not for the work of the weavers