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Thread #120607 Message #2637208
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-May-09 - 12:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'With my ran tan tan and my jimmy ...'
Subject: Lyr Add: THE JOVIAL SPORTSMEN (Isle of Wight)
From A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect by William Henry Long (London: Reeves & Turner, 1886):
THE JOVIAL SPORTSMEN.
1. There was zome jolly sportsmen
Went out to hunt a fox,
And where d'ye think they vound him ?
Among the hills and rocks.
CHORUS: With my whoop, whoop, whoop, and my halloa!
All in this merry train;
With my ran, tan, tan, and my tivy, tivy, twang;
Right droo the woods we'll ride, brave bwoys,
Right droo the woods we'll ride.
2. The vust we met was a ploughman,
A ploughen of his land;
He swore he zid bold Kenyard
Run by on his right hand.
3. The next we met was a miller,
A peepen out o' his mill;
He swore he zid bold Renyard
Run up the yonder hill.
4. The next we met was a blind man,
As blind as he could be;
He swore he zid bold Renyard
Run up a hollow tree.
5. The next we met was a paason,
Clad in his mournen black;
He swore he zid bold Renyard
Run up the huntsman's back.