Who Owns the Game?

DESCRIPTION: "Pay attention , you poachers, wherever you be, Can you answer my question... Who owns the wild hare that runs over the lea?" The singer's grandfather was transported for killing a pheasant. But the people need food; he will keep poaching
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1992 (Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk)
KEYWORDS: poaching bird animal transportation mother father poverty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk, #104, "Who Owns the Game?" (1 text)
Roud #3209
NOTES [35 words]: What seems to be the only field recording of this was by Fred Whiting. There seems to have been a poaching tradition in Whiting's area; he was also the only source for the song "The Blacksmith's Mantrap." - RBW
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File: Hows104

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