Marrow Bones (one of 3 anthologies from the Hammond and Gardiner Mss, published by the then EFDS in 1965)has "Three Jolly Huntsmen", collected in 1908 from William Taylor in the Petersfield Workhouse, Hampshire. The verses are similar, but the chorus goes, "With my hip, hip, hip and my holloa / And away went the merry, merry band / With my ran, tan, tan and my chivvy, chivvy chan / All over the merry, merry strand. / With my ugle, ugle, ugle went the bugle horn / Fal-le-ral, fal-le-ral,fal-le-ral-le-dee / And through the woods we'll go, brave boys / and through the woods we'll go.

I sang this at the Four Fools festival a few years ago, and Les Barker said "What a silly song...."

Kitty