Richard ... you beat me to it.
BUT seeing as I've got it all typed out I'll post it anyway
If anyone wants a MIDI of the tune .... let me know

MR FOX

Outside Mr Fox's garden
Three maids were playing with a golden ball
Jenny threw it up and Susan caught it
Mary bounced it over the wall
The wall is high
Mister Fox has a little red eye

In she ran to fetch it back again
The garden gate stood open wide
Suddenly it was shut and bolted
Mr Fox was just inside
The wall is high
His smile is cruel and his eyes are sly

He said "I shall keep your ball Miss Mary
I shall have it and here you will stay
You'll keep my house and be my servant
And never go out for a year and a day"
The wall is high
The long grass shivers and the tall trees sigh

Spring and summer passed like shadows
She watched the green leaves fade and fall
She walked alone in the empty garden
And Mr Fox said nothing at all
The wall is high
Never a soul comes near or by

Three strange things he did forbid her
"Never you touch my iron box
Never go near the thirteenth bedroom
Nor near the bed" said Mr Fox
The wall is high
Don't you dare ask me why

Mary, she rose up one morning
She saw an iron box on a shelf
But of all the rooms at Mr Fox's
Bedrooms there were only twelve
The wall is high
Mary, don't you peep or pry

One day Mr Fox went walking
In that box she found a key
It fitted a door she'd never unfastened
And when she opened it -what did she see?
The wall is high
The door said stop and the key said fly

In Mr fox's thirteenth bedroom
A naked sword hung on the wall
In a silver bowl on the bed's black counterpane
Mary saw her golden ball
The bed said come and the sword said die

In she ran to get her ball again
To snatch it off the great black bed
Out crept Mr Fox and leaped at her
His teeth flashed white and his eyes burned red
The wall is high ....................


Written by John Pole 1964
Published in THE ENGLISH FOLK SINGER 1979