The DT has the songs "Fair Nottamun Town" and Paddy Backwards. Thread 13671 discusses this song: Nottamun Town . Vance Randolph, "Roll Me In Your Arms," pp. 302-305, has three versions of "Nottingham Fair" aka "Nottamon Fair" of which one is fairly complete. These "lying songs" (of Irish type?) concern a visit to the fair by a young man and the improbable sights and happenings there. They seem rather distantly related to the hunting song. Lying songs have always been popular. A short one from Randolph: Nottingham Fair As I was a-walkin' to Nottingham Fair, I seen a fair damsel all on a gray mare, With her ass painted blue and a bull on her back, A bundle of fodder was stuck in her crack. And there was the King and a company more, A-riding on horseback all walkin' before, A stark naked drummer a-beating the drum, With his heels in his ass-hole before them did run. The mare throwed the damsel right off in the ditch, So I out with my old doogey an' mounted the bitch, She drawed back her foot an' kicked me in the shin, Before I got on I was off her ag'in. It is stretching to relate these songs.
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