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Thread #165561 Message #3973062
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
23-Jan-19 - 08:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Song about Fox Hunting
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Fox Hunting
Jean Ritchie recorded a version with something like your chorus:
Tally-Ho, Tally-Ho, pursue him! The huntsman loudly cried. A-Hi-Li, A-Hi-Lo And a down the woods we glide
It was on Marching Across the Green Grass and other American Children Game Songs and you can get the pdf of the notes here: Folkways Liner Notes FW07702 (pdf). She calls it All Ye Jolly Huntsmen and has only 2 verses (blacksmith and miller). She says she heard her first version from a chambermaid in Dublin, but the song has changed by herself and her family.
Searches on the line "Tally-ho, tally-ho, pursue him" come up with 2 sources Popular Song Index - Patricia Pate Havlice. There's no view at archive.org for the entry, but the book can be borrowed from there. The other is for Shropshire Folklore - A Sheaf of Gleanings in a 2018 reprint. A couple of the original volumes are are archive but they don't seem to have the song.