Sleeve notes from 'Byker Hill'

"The notion of identifying intercourse with ordnance,as in The Bonny Black Hare,is as old as Cupid with his bow and arrow.Just as old is the intuition connecting the images of love and hunting,as in the jokey southern counties called the'Furze Field.Restoration bucks were fond of making songs on this theme but were only annexing an ancient (perhaps sacred)piece of folk symbology.The song seems rare although it has been reported in an unmistakably British form in upper Arkansas.
This version was collected fron an Irish labourer,Mr Murrow,at Walberswick,Suffolk,in 1938.His tune is a member of a widespread melody family called 'Lough Lein'but his rhythm was not very clear.Some versions he sang in a standard 9/8(3+3+3)others a bit curtailed into a 'mixed'8/8 (3+2+3)"
MC

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