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I’d sooner go hedging than build a stone wall
All pick-up-and-place-it and hope it don’t fall
When east winds blow bitter and keen in the trees
I’d sooner lay blackthorn than dry wall and freeze

I’d sooner go hedging, the best thing I know
For anger and anguish and woman-made woe
No matter how hurt or insulted I feel
A tussle with blackthorn will help it to heal

I’d sooner go hedging than read in a book
The more you get thinking the darker things look
Since study and weeping are hard on the eyes
I’d sooner lay blackthorn than learn to be wise

I’d sooner go hedging than writing of verse
All weaving and rhyming as if by a curse
For little men care what a poet may scrawl
But a blackthorn well laid is a pleasure to all

I’d sooner go hedging than seek all my days
For wealth or position or other men’s praise
Plain billhook and axe are the tools of my trade
Six shillings a chain is the rate I am paid

I’d sooner go hedging, but come the next spring
I’ll up and be gone like a bird on the wing
And all I shall miss when I reach my new home
Will be hedges to slash at and blackthorn in bloom

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from A Cold Cup Of Tea And A Howl Of Despair, released February 21, 2018
Words by Frank Mansell. Tune by Peter Tatham.

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