The shearers work hard for a living for them never an easy pay <br />In shearing sheds in the warm weather they work through the heat of the day <br />At the end of a long shearing Season their backs from constant bending do ache <br />They work in the evening till nightfall they start shortly after daybreak <br />The shearers are children of shearers the trade one might say handed down <br />They enjoy their beer at the weekend in the pub of the nearest bush town <br />They do seem to enjoy the hard life we make our life choices some say <br />From shearing shed to shearing shed in the big Country from home they work quite a long way <br />Some daughters of shearers become shearers one might say they've got shearing in the blood <br />But it must be a hard way for a woman for to have to earn a livelihood <br />Yet top women shearers are good at shearing for their shearing feats they are well known <br />Even with the best of the male shearers they have been known to hold their own <br />The shearers work hard for a living for them never an easy pay <br />In the shearing shed they feel hot and sweaty in the sunshine of a humid day.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-shearers-work-hard/
