Childe the Hunter

DESCRIPTION: "Come, listen all, both great and small To you a tale I'll tell.... It so befekl, as I've heard tell, There came the hunter Childe... On Dart-a-moor so wild." He is lost while hunting in the snow, and writes his will in his horse's blood
AUTHOR: probably Sabine Baring-Gould (see NOTES)
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: death hunting horse burial storm lastwill | blood
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #33, "Childe the Hunter" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [66 words]: Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd claims that this is a real story about one Childe of Plymstock. A true story, perhaps, but not a true folk song. Steve Roud doesn't bother giving it a number, and rightly so, I think. Nor do the notes in Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd make it clear what tune they inflicted these words upon. Nonetheless the tune is alleged to be traditional. - RBW
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