Key: A minor
Verse 1
near Oldentown,
as I have heard them tell,
There once was a white hare
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that used their fort to dwell.
She's been hunted by beagles
and greyhounds so fair,
But there's ne 'er a
one amongst them
could come near this old white hare.
With me right for the dinner,
oh, right for the day,
They went unto the place
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where the wighter used to lie
They uncoupled their beagles
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and beginning for to try
They uncoupled their beagles
and beat the bushes round
But there was never a wighter
not there to be found
With me right for the diddle -ho,
right for the day
There was Jim Smith, the huntsman,
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and Tom the whipperin'
Went down to yonder fernside
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to see if she be in
With that she took her job, me boys,
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and away she did run
Younger she is growing, don't you see?
A gentleman with me,
right from the day below,
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right from the day.
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The footman they did run,
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and the huntsman they did ride,
Such hollerin' and shoutin'
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there was on every side,
Such hollerin' and shoutin'
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I never before had known,
And all of them were crying,
Tally -ho,
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Tally -ho, with me right,
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For the dingle -doe, right for the day
There was twenty good beagles
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that caused her four to die
There wasn't a one among them
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above or beside
The number of the beagles
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there never could be found
I never was there, so Johnson,
Upon our English grounds with me ride,
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For the nimble hog, ride for the day.
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