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Thread #147208   Message #3410995
Posted By: Artful Codger
27-Sep-12 - 02:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Hunting Day / Fine Hunting Day
Subject: RE: Origins: The Hunting Day / Fine Hunting Day
There's a version posted on Zierke's "Mainly Norfolk" pages for the Watersons: "We'll All Go a-Hunting Today". Their source (per A.L. Lloyd) was David Hillery, who got it from Jack Beeforth, a North Yorks singer.

There is a version in Roy Palmer's Everyman's Book of English Country Songs (p. 213) which reportedly came from the Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse, no. 237.

There is a version posted on Old Norris' Fox Hunting Page, with a note citing Roy Palmer's Everyman's Book, which I take to be the source of the transcription.

Leader issued an LP recording (LEE 4056, 1975) titled "A Fine Hunting Day", recorded by the Holme Valley Beagles which presumably featured this song, though the only near-matching title is "On a Fine Hunting Morn", and none of the songs has a matching Roud number (1172, per the Waterson page and the Baring Gould score listing). A track list (thanks to Reinhard Zierke again) may be found here.