“Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping”
Description
"I keep my dogs and my ferrets too, O I have them in my keepin' To catch good hares all in the night While the gamekeeper lies sleeping." The singer goes out one night and poaches a female rabbit. Her cries bring the keepers, but he escapes and sells her
Cross references
- cf. "While Gamekeepers Were Sleeping" (lyrics)
Recordings
- Wiggy Smith, "Hares in the Old Plantation" (on Voice18)
- Tom Willett, "While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping" (on TWillett01, HiddenE)
References
- Kennedy 249, "Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 266-267, "Dogs and Ferrets" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Roud #363
- BI, K249