Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare (Tom and Barbara Brown)

Subject: Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare
From: GUEST,Singerdave
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 09:55 AM

Again can anyone provide the lyrics for above song by Tom and Barbara Brown.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare
From: Gozz
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 10:25 AM

Try a PM to doc.tom or Barbara. They do frequent this site.

Martin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 10:59 AM

One set of lyrics Here
That page states: This song is by Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts and appears on the album Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts (1995).
Despite this it is much earlier, and Welsh.
Available in the BBC "Singing Together Summer Term 1974"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 11:26 AM

There's a comprehensive thread on the song here on Mudcat (including the KRx2 version and the Welsh version): Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare (from Kate Rusby).

Mick

Subject: Lyr Add: HUNTING THE HARE (Tom & Barbara Brown)
From: Reinhard
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 12:03 PM

HUNTING THE HARE
As recorded by Tom and Barbara Brown on “Just Another Day” (2014)

What joys can compare with the hunting of the hare
In the morning, boys, in the morning, boys,
In the sweet and the pleasant weather?

Chorus (after each verse):
When the bugle horn does sound,
We’ve got sport all on the ground,
Ran-tan-tero, huzzah, ran-tan-tero, huzzah,
Ran-tan-tero, my boys, we’ll follow.

And when poor puss arise then away from us she flies,
And we’ll give her, boys, and we’ll give her, boys,
One thundering and loud holler.

And when poor puss is killed, we’ll retire from the field,
And we’ll count, boys, and we’ll count, boys,
On the same good run tomorrow.

So what joys can compare with the hunting of the hare
In the morning, boys, in the morning, boys,
In the sweet and the pleasant weather?

Source: "Just Another Day…"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 12:06 PM

I did try searching before my post, but couldn't find it.
Just typed it out from Singing Together (Summer 1974) to find I was duplicating earlier work.
Oh well, I had the booklet to hand anyway as it's currently on EBay as a duplicate.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare
From: Reinhard
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 12:45 PM

Tom and Barbara Brown's sleeve notes from "Just Another Day ...":

There are a few versions of this classic hare-hunting song; Martin and Shan Graebe recorded one collected by Sabine Baring-Gould on their Dusty Diamonds CD, and we’ve even seen it in print as Somersetshire Hunting Song. This is [Captain] Vickery [of Minehead]’s version [collected by Cecil Sharp on January 13, 1906; VWML CJS2/10/774] —with more hunting-song clichés than you could throw a drag at. Tom sees no purpose in hare hunting—but then he is bald!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hunting the Hare
From: GUEST,threelegsoman
Date: 18 Dec 18 - 03:40 AM

I uploaded a Welsh version of "Hunting the Hare", written by A P Graves which translated into English is:

Hunting The Hare

O the yelping of hounds, the skelping along the cover and out at the back.
O the galloping! O the walloping! O the rush of the gone away ‘Jack’.
Off like a feather he floats o’er the heather Blackberry calling the tune in his track,
Spot and Spider and Beauty beside her, then Red Rake and the rest of the pack.

Now they've lost him and now they're finding him, now he's winding 'em round by the stack
Hark! The horn! To the height we follow 'em, cheer and holloa 'em for'ard or back.
Ne'er such a frisker at fate cocked a whisker, or bustled us brisker, than yonder old Jack.
One more double across the stubble, and he's in trouble and tossed by the pack.

Bay and Grey are away to the stable, and jovial hunters the table attack ;
Meat we're munching and oats they're crunching, and pails they empty and bottles we crack
Here's to the Master! No fairer or faster to steady the heady or screw up the slack!
Here's to the Hunt! And our glasses a-jingle with joy commingle—and here's to the Pack !


My 12-string guitar accompanied version can be found at:
Hunting the Hare (Including lyrics and chords)