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Posted by IONA English folk correspondent, 8th Apr 2006
An old song from Hampshire
O I've got a dog and a good dog too
And I keeps him in my keeping
For to catch those hares that run by night
Whilst the gamekeepers lie sleeping
My dog and me went out one night
For to learn some education
Up jumps a hare and away she ran
Into a large plantation
She had not gone so very far
Before something stopped her running,
O Aunt! O Aunt! /One leap from a dog/ she loudly cried,
Stop a minute, your Uncle's coming!
Oh I took out my little penknife
And quickly I did paunch her,
She turned out one of the female kind
I'm mighty glad I caught her
I picked her up and I smoothed her down
And I put her in my keeping
And I said to my dog "It's time to be going
Whilst the gamekeepers are still sleeping
Me and my dog went to the town,
And sold the hare to a labouring man
And I sold him for a crown.
We then went to some public house
And there we got well mellow;
For we spent that crown and another one too,
Don't you think I'm a good-hearted fellow?
(repeat 1st verse)
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