The traditional versions of the popular ballad "Johnnie Cock" (Child 114, better known today as "Johnny O'Breadiesley") that I've seen have various endings: the poacher, Johnnie, having killed or wounded those sent to stop him, is himself wounded or killed, or after having to fight swears not to fight or hunt again, or in at least one version, is pardoned by the king. The versions I've heard by Ewan MacColl on his anthologies (don't have them at hand to listen to now so I'm quoting from memory) end with the unharmed and unrepentant poacher proudly boasting that he will keep hunting all he wants to. I don't know if there is actually a traditional version with this ending, but I suspect MacColl made it up himself for political impact: triumph of the working class hero against the upper class landowner.

Incidentally, I've always assumed this ballad was the distant ancestor of the 1958 Johnny Cash hit "Don't take your guns to town," though I have no way of proving it. It's at least plausible, I think, that whoever wrote the song (I don't know if it was Johnny Cash himself) was adapting an American folk ballad which was a variant or descendent of Child 114.

Jon Corelis
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