Say Lad, Have You Things To Do?

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"Say Lad, Have You Things To Do?" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the sixth in a set of eleven poems from A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad". If interested in sheet music, please email jackmor@umich.edu

Text

Say, lad, have you things to do?
Quick then, while your day’s at prime.
Quick, and if ’tis work for two,
Here am I, man: now’s your time.

Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man’s no use at all;

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Say Lad, Have You Things To Do?

Cole: “A Shropshire Lad” (Timestamps in description!)

Cole: “A Shropshire Lad” (Timestamps in description!)