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Thread #92959 Message #1783584
Posted By: BB
14-Jul-06 - 02:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hunting song (Geordie Hanna)
Subject: Lyr Add: KILGRAIN HARE (from Patrick Street)
It's, or something similar, is on Patrick Street's 'Cornerboys' CD, GLCD 1160, called 'The Kilgrain Hare' with these words:
Come all you bold sportsmen of honour and fame That weekly appears on the braes of Kilgrain With your servants and your horses and your dogs at command And young Richard Hunter to lead on the band
With me hark tally ho, hark over yon brow She's over says the huntsman and yonder she'll go
November fourteenth on that fatal day As down from my dwelling I chanced for to stray All alone by the side of yon whinny green hill Where oftimes in plenty I sported at will
As I fed on green grass that grows on yonder ground My heart was set beating by the cry of the hounds And Hunter the foremost of all for the prey In a voice like the thunder cries out hark away
Right over the moutnain and away past Kilgrain Well buckled by Ringwood and Slasher by name Then down past Young's buildings and away through Cloyfin That old beagle Draper my curse light on him
Right over my old course like lightening I flew To keep a good distance from that bloody crew But the hounds in full cry filled my heart with despair That blood thirsty crew had my life in their care
O now I must die and I know not the crime To the value of sixpence I ne'er harmed mankind And the hounds to the trail, they were bred to obey It was you, Richard Hunter, led by life astray
My race being run, I was forced to give o'er My innocent body in pieces they tore You may seek other pastimes and drink healths galore On the braes of Kilgrain you will hunt me no more
Sorry about the lack of punctuation, but that's how it appears in Patrick Street's notes!