Rural Sport

DESCRIPTION: How can you sleep when the hounds are out and the sun is shining? The singer leaves his wife behind in bed to hunt the hare. "No pleasure like hunting to pass a long day... At night to our supper we will dance... over a jug of brown ale"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (OShaughnessy-YellowbellyBalladsPart2)
KEYWORDS: hunting dancing drink food animal
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "WHARNCLIFFE HIGHWOOD"
OShaughnessy-YellowbellyBalladsPart2 55, "Wharncliffe Highwood" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: William Hill, EFDSS Archives GG/1/18/1151, "Rural Sport," https://www.vwml.org/search?q=GG/1/18/1151&is=1, accessed 7/25/2023.
Roud #1869
File: OSY255

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