The narrator describes how he and his fellow-workers are woken at four in the morning by their farmer master: Twas early one morning at the break of the day The cocks were all crowing and the farmer did say, 'Come rise my good fellows, come rise with good-will.
Berättaren i sången beskriver hur han och hans arbetskamrater väcks vid fyra på morgonen av sin husbonde: Twas early one morning at the break of the day The cocks were all crowing and the farmer did say, 'Come rise my good fellows, come rise with good-will.