"Not far from Pauntley, if you know those parts;

The place is Spital Farm, near Silver Hill,

Above a trap-hatch where a mill-stream starts.

We had the mill once, but we've stopped the mill;

My dad and sister keep the farm on still.

We're only tenants, but we've rented there,

Father and son, for over eighty year.

"Father has worked the farm since grandfer went;

It means the world to him; I can't think why.

They bleed him to the last half-crown for rent,