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Thread #105960   Message #2184445
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
01-Nov-07 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: Versions of The White Hare (of Howden)
Subject: RE: Versions of The White Hare (of Howden)
See thread The White Hare (Watersons) for more information, including the modern 'happy ending' and links to broadside editions.

This is number 1110 in the Roud Folk Song Index, where you will find that there are three examples known from tradition: the two mentioned and another, recorded by Peter Kennedy from a Mrs Cooke of Cardington, Shropshire, in 1952. This last is unpublished so far as I know.

'The Creggan White Hare' (Roud 9633) is a completely unrelated song, not a 'version' of this one; though it is also about hunting a white hare.