Come sit you down beside me said father to his son

When the evening meal was finished and work of day was done

Draw nearer boy and listen well to what I have to say

I'll speak it now in confidence, while mother is away

I heard tonight when I came home from working hard all day

Your mother has been grieved because her son has gone astray

I don't believe in beating, for I think talk does more good

I'll use the simplest kind of words, and so be understood.