Hunting Deer

DESCRIPTION: "Come on, ye hunters, if ye want to hear, That famous story of hunting deer, A deer in the woods and not a deer in the bag." The hunter wasted his ammo and bagged nothing. He warns against not to "skin your deer before you kill it" and lists other hunters
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1926 (Rickaby collection, according to Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra)
KEYWORDS: hunting hardtimes humorous derivative moniker
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 65, "Hunting Deer" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #28963
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (tune, characters) and references there
File: RDL065

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