If I Were Back Home in Hampshire

DESCRIPTION: "If I were back 'ome in 'Ampshire, Where they birds do flock round I, I'd clap my 'hands an' laugh like buggery, An' all they birds would fly away." "I wonder where that blackbird be... 'E see I an' I see 'e an' I be after 'e...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: home England bird nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Copper-SongsAndSouthernBreezes, pp. 296-297, "If I were back 'ome in 'Ampshire" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16931
File: CoSB296

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