Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
Dicho (Frank Staplin) Wild Boar: History, Lyrics & Discussion-Child #18 (105* d) RE: Wild Boar: History, Lyrics & Discussion 24 Aug 02


Jody Stecher sings a version with an amusing mis-hearing in the second line, about which he says "'Blow your horn center,' whatever that means, is the perpetual second line of all verses."

Egrabel he had three sons
Blow your horn center
Old bangum he was one
Just like a jovial hunter.

Old Bangum did by Towwood ride
A lady in a tree he spied
What keeps you here, my gay lady?
The Torwood boar has captured me.

He'd eat your flesh and drink your blood
And drag your bones around the wood
How many has he killed of thee?
He's killed my lord and thirty-three.

The rest at Old Bangum (and John Detroy)
A midi of the Stecher version from Sing Out! V.44#2 is at Old Bangum

Tablature of "Bangum" by Gordon Banks at Bangum

The Sharp coll. 1916 variant of Sir Lionel is in Contemplator Sir Lionel

This may already have been posted but a variant of "The Wild Hog" is in the Max Hunter Coll.: Wild Hog


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.
   * Click on the linked number with * to view the thread split into pages (click "d" for chronologically descending).

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.