Malcolm... it looks as if I combined two verses somewhere along the way... I've been singing the song that way for so long I can't remember why or when it happened!

I can't remember where I got these words (though I do remember seeing them in print), but the complete version goes thusly:


1. The Keeper would a-hunting go,
   And under his cloak he carried a bow
   All for to shoot at a pretty little doe
   Among the leaves so green-oh.

Chorus:
   Jackie boy!                  Master?
   Sing ye well?                Very well!
   Hey down!                    Ho down!
   Derry, derry down,
   Among the leaves so green-oh.
   To me hey down, down.        To me ho down, down.
   Hey down!                    Ho down!
   Derry, derry down,
   Among the leaves so green-oh.

2. The first doe he shot at, he missed
   The second doe, he trimmed, he kissed
   The third doe went where nobody wist
   Among the leaves so green-oh.

3. The fourth doe, she did cross the plain,
   The Keeper fetched her back again,
   Where she is now, she may well remain
   Among the leaves so green-oh.

4. The fifth doe, she did cross the brook,
   The Keeper fetched her back with his hook
   Where she is now, you must go and look
   Among the leaves so green-oh.

5. The sixth doe, she did cross the plain,
   But he, with his hounds, did turn her again
   And there they did hunt in a merry, merry vein
   Among the leaves so green-oh.

6. The seventh doe she did cross the hollow
   And where she went, he soon did follow,
   What he did today, he'll do again tomorrow
   Among the leaves so green-oh.

7. The last doe was a fallow doe,
   So great with young she could not go,
   She looked so big he let her go
   Among the leaves so green-oh.