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Thread #30922 Message #403715
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Feb-01 - 10:58 AM
Thread Name: Fox hunting songs - right or wrong!!!!
Subject: RE: Fox hunting songs - right or wrong!!!!
In traditional versions of "The White Hare of Howden", the hare is always caught. There is a verse in which she escapes, but this appears to be a modern bowdlerisation, perhaps by Gary Aspey, which doesn't really fit the song, either syntactically or as a piece of storytelling. See the current thread The White Hare (Watersons)
Malcolm