And many are the hardships too, that since I have gone through.

Sing Wo! my lads, sing wo!

Drive on, my lads, heigh-ho!

Who would not live the life of the jolly waggoner?

It is a cold and stormy night, and I'm wet to the skin,

I'll bear it with contentment till I get to the inn,

And then I'll sit a-drinking with the landlord and his kin.

Sing Wo! &c.

Now summer is a-coming on—what pleasure we shall see!

The small birds blithely singing, so sweet on every tree,