Hunting and Poaching Songs - Revision history

JohnnyAdams at 16:49, 27 January 2016

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	* Other songs on this theme.		* Other songs on this theme.

	[[Horn of the Hunter,The\|The Horn of the Hunter]]		[[Horn of the Hunter,The:Song\|The Horn of the Hunter (Song)]]

	[[Hounds of the Meynell,The\|The Hounds of the Meynell]]		[[Hounds of the Meynell,The:Song\|The Hounds of the Meynell (Song)]]

	[[Wild and Wicked Youths]]		[[Wild and Wicked Youths:Song\|Wild and Wicked Youths (Song)]]

JohnnyAdams: Added song titles

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	Probably the most famous hunting song is ''[[Do ye Ken John Peel?]]'', formerly routinely taught to English school children during the early to mid years of the 20th century.		Probably the most famous hunting song is ''[[Do ye Ken John Peel?]]'', formerly routinely taught to English school children during the early to mid years of the 20th century.

			* Other songs on this theme.

			[[Horn of the Hunter,The\|The Horn of the Hunter]]

			[[Hounds of the Meynell,The\|The Hounds of the Meynell]]

			[[Wild and Wicked Youths]]

JohnnyAdams: Added link to 'Do ye Ken John Peel?'

2009-03-27T08:55:06Z

Added link to 'Do ye Ken John Peel?'

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	Sections on this theme are to be found in ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', ''[[The Folk Songs of Britain]]'', and ''[[The Voice of the People]]''.		Sections on this theme are to be found in ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', ''[[The Folk Songs of Britain]]'', and ''[[The Voice of the People]]''.



			Probably the most famous hunting song is ''[[Do ye Ken John Peel?]]'', formerly routinely taught to English school children during the early to mid years of the 20th century.

PeteWood: New page: Hunting songs are almost always jolly songs with lots of choruses, about the day itself, the company, the open air, the dogs, the nobility of the quarry, and on most occasions the fox or h...

2007-04-19T15:43:11Z

New page: Hunting songs are almost always jolly songs with lots of choruses, about the day itself, the company, the open air, the dogs, the nobility of the quarry, and on most occasions the fox or h...

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Hunting songs are almost always jolly songs with lots of choruses, about the day itself, the company, the open air, the dogs, the nobility of the quarry, and on most occasions the fox or hare seems to escape, as in ''The Howden Hare'' or ''The brown hare of Whitebrook Head''. They come from a time when the morality of hunting was not questioned. Poaching songs are usually adventure songs, about the thrill of the moonlit night, and the eternal contest with the gamekeeper. The better ones also comment on the iniquity of the squire owning so much when poor folk are starving, and are often linked to the barbarity of the legal system of the late 18th and early 19th centuries which led to many fine [[transportation songs]].

Sections on this theme are to be found in ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', ''[[The Folk Songs of Britain]]'', and ''[[The Voice of the People]]''.