I Will Go With My Father a-Ploughing

Joseph Campbell/Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Skeins. 

Irish poet Joseph Campbell (also wrote under the name Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil, 1897-1944) who also wrote many songs, often collaborating with the fine composer/collector Herbert Hughes, but all except "Gartan Mother's Lullaby" and "My Lagan Love" have fallen into obscurity. His poetry is archived on the web—The Mountainy Singer is an excellent collection. Campbell was an orderly in the Easter Uprising in 1916. Disaffected with Irish politics, he moved to New York City in 1925, where he founded the school of Irish Studies at Fordham University. He returned to Ireland in 1939. 

I will go with my father a-ploughing 
To the green field by the sea, 
And the rooks and the crows and the seagulls 
Will come flocking after me. 
I will sing to the patient horses 
With the lark in the white of the air, 
And my father will sing the plough song 
That blesses the cleaving share. 

I will go with my father a-sowing 
To the red field by the sea, 
And the rooks and the gulls and the starlings 
Will come flocking after me. 
I will sing to the striding sowers 
With the finch on the greening sloe, 
And my father will sing the seed song 
That only the wise men know. 

I will go with my father a-reaping 
To the brown field by the sea, 
And the geese and the crows and the children 
Will come flocking after me. 

I will sing to the tan-faced reapers 
With the wren in the heat of the sun, 
And my father will sing the scythe song 
That joys for the harvest done.