Pheasant Plucker, The

DESCRIPTION: Tongue-twister. "I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son. I'm only plucking pheasants 'til the pheasant plucker comes." The plucker's husband is a gamekeeper; they pluck together or separately. The singer may have a mother-plucker
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1997 (Digital Tradition)
KEYWORDS: bird wordplay | pheasant plucking
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
DT, PHEASPLK
RECORDINGS:
Jane Prentice, "Pheasant Plucker" (Piotr-Archive #101, recorded 03/08/2022)
NOTES [64 words]: All sorts of Internet sources claim this dates to the nineteenth century if not earlier, and some of them give a back story. But since none of them seem to cite an actual source, I'm forced to date this to the demonstrable date of the Digital Tradition version. Mudcat has a long, uninformative, thread with some faintly related versions and odd (I'm tempted to say "loose") lyrics. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.7
File: DPio101

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography