X:1
T:The Fox Hunt
M:none
B:Martin Carthy: A Guitar in Folk Music
S:Ralph Vaughan Williams
Z:Stephen Poll
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
L:1/8
K:Gmix
G G D G2A2(B c) d e2f e c (d c) A G3
w:You gen-tle-men of high_ ren-own come lis-ten un_to me
G G D G2A2(B c) d e2f e c (d c) A G4
w:That take de-light in fox_hunt-ing, by ev-er-y_ deg-ree
d d d (d B) G c2B A2B c c (B A) G D3
w:A sto-ry now_ I'll tell to you con-cern-ing of_ a fox
G G D G2A2(B c) d e2f e c (d c) A G3|]
w:O'er Roy-ston Hills and moun_tains high, and o-ver sto_ny rocks
W:You gentlemen of high renown
W:Come listen unto me
W:That take delight in foxhunting
W:By every degree
W:A story now I'll tell to you
W:Concerning of a fox
W:O'er Royston Hills and mountains high
W:And over stony rocks.
W:
W:Old Reynold being in his den
W:And hearing of these hounds
W:Which made him for to prick his ears
W:And tread upon the ground
W:"Methink me hear some jubal hounds
W:Pressing upon my life
W:Before that they to me shall come
W:I'll tread upon the ground."
W:
W:We hunted full four hours or more
W:By parishes sixteen
W:We hunted full four hours or more
W:And come by Barkworth Green
W:"Oh if you'll only spare my life
W:I promise and fulfill
W:I'll touch no more your feathered fowl
W:Nor lambs in yonder fold."
W:
W:Old Reynold beat and out of breath
W:And dreading of these hounds
W:Thinking that he might lose his life
W:Before these jubal hounds
W:"Oh here's adieu to duck and geese
W:Likewise young lamb also"
W:They've got old Reynold by the brush
W:And will not let him go.