Here's a midi/abc I made last year from a version collected in the late 50's in Suffolk. The tune is not vastly different from Nutty's, but like much of the material sung by Emily Sparkes, the words are only fragments of a much larger song. Thanks for posting the rest of the words.

THE FOX AND THE HARE

O the fox and the hare
The badger and the bear
The birds in the greenwood tree
The pretty little rabbits
Are engag-ed in their habits
And they've all got a mate but me.

She was sixteen stone,
All muscle and bone,
And I might have been a millionaire
She might have been mine,
But she fell in a decline,
By swallowing a mouse in the beer.

Collected by Desmond and Shelagh Herring at Rattlesden, Suffolk 1958-59 from the singing of Emily Sparkes.

MIDI file: FOXHARE.MID

Timebase: 96

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: C
Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
Start
0000 1 62 064 0072 0 62 000 0000 1 62 064 0024 0 62 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0072 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0024 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0048 1 67 064 0048 0 67 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0096 0 72 000 0048 1 72 064 0048 0 72 000 0000 1 74 064 0096 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0072 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0024 0 74 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 67 064 0096 0 67 000 0000 1 69 064 0192 0 69 000 0144 1 62 064 0048 0 62 000 0000 1 71 064 0072 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0024 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0072 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0024 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0072 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0024 0 71 000 0000 1 69 064 0072 0 69 000 0000 1 67 064 0024 0 67 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 76 064 0072 0 76 000 0000 1 76 064 0024 0 76 000 0000 1 74 064 0096 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0072 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0024 0 74 000 0000 1 72 064 0096 0 72 000 0000 1 69 064 0096 0 69 000 0000 1 67 064 0192 0 67 000 0096 1 62 064 0072 0 62 000 0000 1 62 064 0024 0 62 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 67 064 0096 0 67 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0096 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0096 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 74 064 0072 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0024 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0072 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0024 0 74 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 67 064 0096 0 67 000 0000 1 69 064 0192 0 69 000 0144 1 62 064 0048 0 62 000 0000 1 71 064 0072 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0024 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 71 064 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 69 064 0072 0 69 000 0000 1 67 064 0024 0 67 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0072 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0024 0 72 000 0000 1 72 064 0096 0 72 000 0000 1 76 064 0096 0 76 000 0000 1 74 064 0072 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0024 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0072 0 74 000 0000 1 74 064 0024 0 74 000 0000 1 72 064 0096 0 72 000 0000 1 69 064 0072 0 69 000 0000 1 69 064 0024 0 69 000 0000 1 67 064 0192 0 67 000
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

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ABC format:

X: 7
T:Fox and the Hare, The
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
S:Emily Sparkes
A:Suffolk
N:Recorded at Rattlesden 1958/59
D:Many a Good Horseman VTVS01/0
K:G
D>D|
B2 B>B B2 z G|c>c c>c c2 z c|
d2 d>d B2 G2 |A4 z3 D|
B>B B>B B>B A>G|c>c c>c c>c e>e|
d2 d>d c2 A2 |G4 z2 D>D|
B2 B2 B2 G2 |c>c c2 c2 c>c|
d>d d>d B2 G2 |A4 z3 D|
B>B B2 B2 A>G|c>c c>c c2 e2|
d>d d>d c2 A>A|G4 ||



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