I have struggled with this topic myself over the years. I do sing and enjoy hunting songs. Someone once told me that there was a big difference between the English nobles' hunt and the hunting of the common man. I think most people think of the nobles hunting when they think of fox hunting, for example. The common man's hunt had more to do with a respite from the boredom of everyday life. A chance to be with friends and, without a doubt, to hunt and kill something.

I've never hunted myself but it does seem to me that hunting is quite unfair. Maybe if the fox had a gun too, perhaps? Yet it seems that hunting is perhaps part of the human psyche or some vestigal remnant of our past. However, there are too many good hunting songs with great choruses.

Richard