Fox Loves the Valley, The

DESCRIPTION: "The fox loves the valley, the deer loves the hill, The boys love the girls And I guess they always will."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore)
KEYWORDS: animal love
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 136, "(The fox loves the valley)" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Herring Loves the Moonlight (The Dreg Song)" (lyrics)
NOTES [72 words]: The Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore version of this is from an autograph book kept by Elsie Conway, probably (based on the other items in that part of Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore) from the 1890s. I can find no other trace of this exact version. But the first part is so similar to "The Herring Loves the Moonlight (The Dreg Song)," and the second half so commonplace, that I suspect it is traditional. I am indexing it on that basis. - RBW
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File: SaKo136

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