The weaver's wife sits at the fire
And works the pirn wheel.
She likes to hear her own good man
Drive on the shuttle weel.

(Chorus)
The shuttle rins, the shuttle rins,
The shuttle rins wi' speed;
Oh sweetly may the shuttle rin,
That wins the bairns' bread.

Thread after thread makes up the claith
Until the wage he wins,
And ilka weaver maks the mair,
The mair his shuttle rins.

He rises early in the morn
He toils till late at night
He fain would independent be,
He knows what is his right.

The proudest o' the land would pine
Without the waever's wark
The pampered priest, the haughty peer
Would go without a sark.


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Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1984, BBC Publications

Notes:
Source simply identified as 'Scotland'

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