My mother used to sing this. The version I wrote down is very similar to the one in the Digitrad, with a few differences In verse 2 line two, The gamekeeper was watching us, for him we did not care Verse three line three We put her into a bag my boys and through the wood did steer Verse four line two We called into a neighbour's house and sold her for a crown Verse five begins Now I do favour poaching I think its very fair. One thing I noticed - the hare is called 'he' in the two versions, but hares are called 'she', or puss - at least by country folk.
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