Since I don't have anything else to do I'll post the words to Martin Carthy's version this morning:


HARES IN THE OLD PLANTATION
As sung by Martin Carthy on Waterson:Carthy's “Common Tongue.”

Oh I've got a dog got a good dog too
And I have it in my keeping
To catch those hares that run by night
While the game-keeper lies sleeping

Oh me and my dogs we went out one night
To view a habitation
Up jumped one and away she run
Right into my plantation

She kicked she squalled she hollered out
I thought that she was running
I said O puss oh do lie still
For your uncle he is a-coming

I picked her up and I cracked her neck
Oh quickly I did paunch her
She proved to be of the female kind
How glad was I that I caught her

And as I was a-going over Hartford field
Scarce half a field or further
Up jumped another one and away she run
And I made her shriek murder

I picked her up I smoothed her out
Into my pocket put her
I says to my dogs oh we must be going
Before we meet some looker

So I went down to my neighbour's house
And I asked him what he'd give me
He said he'd give me a crown a brace
If I would bring him fifty

So I went down to the public house
And there I got quite mellow
Laid a crown another one laid down
Don't you think that I am a good fellow

Oh I've got a dog got a good dog too
And I have it in my keeping
To catch those hares that run by night
While the gamekeeper lies sleeping

Transcription by Gary Gillard with assistance from Wolfgang Hell.
From: http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/~gillard/watersons/hares2.html