Furze Field, The

DESCRIPTION: The singer advises her lover how to hunt pheasant in her furze field (loaded gun), fish in her fishpond (rod, hooks, and angles "down to the bottom") and rabbits in her warren (ferret ... down to the bottom).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1907 (Purslow-MarrowBones)
KEYWORDS: sex hunting bawdy nonballad animal dog
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Reeves-TheEverlastingCircle 47, "The Furze Field" (1 text)
Purslow-MarrowBones, p. 34, "The Furze Field" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Roger deV. Renwick, _Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths_, University Press of Mississippi, 2001, p. 68, "The Furze Field" (1 text)
Roud #1037
NOTES [29 words]: Reeves-TheEverlastingCircle: "This comprehensive invitation to a sexual encounter, expressed in sporting metaphor, must originally have been intended to be sung by a woman." - BS
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