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Thread #62660   Message #1014016
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
06-Sep-03 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cheerful horn?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cheerful horn?
"Notts Alliance" seem to have recorded an arrangement of the set printed in Lucy Broadwood and J Fuller Maitland's English County Songs (1893, pp. 168-9), where it is called The Cheerful Ârn. It was "noted down in a village ale-house [in Somerset], 1858, by Arthur Thompson, architect". Thompson made a determined effort to convey the strong regional pronounciation (hence the title) but for obvious reasons Notts Alliance didn't attempt to sing it that way. Allowing for that, the words are much the same, though the unknown singer(s) heard by Thompson sang "cup" rather than "jug".

Number 217 in the Roud Folk Song Index. There are a number of broadside editions at  Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads.  These are also indicated in the other thread referred to above.

When bucks a hunting go

No relation to The Innocent Hare.