The problem with Susan of DT's point is that no-one wears antlers in THIS dance. For Bruce to say she is right because in Abbots Bromley they wear antlers is a bit of a stretch. Abbots Bromley is another dance done in another place at another time. If they sang about "wearing the horn" at AB, or if they wore horns at Helston, we'd have something.

Another brief note on this song. In the booklet to the new Watersons box set, one of the W's (Norma I think, but it's at home and I'm not there now...) says that Mike Waterson added the first verse that they sing. She then, in the interview, says "Since Man Has Been Created...," suggesting that the verse in question began that way. But if you listen to the version they actually recorded, the first verse is "Take the scorn and wear the horn...." Is it possible that Mike added this bit of Shakespearean folksong to Hal An Tow in the early 60s? Abby Sale in another thread mentioned a book with this verse connected to the chorus (but no other verses) in 1892. Can anyone confirm? Also, is there such a verse as "since man has been created...?"