“Hunting Seals”
Description
"With knife and fork, with kettle and pan, With spoon and mug, and glasses.... For we are swoilers fearless, bold, As we copy from pan to pan, sir." The singer describes hunting seals, facing polar bears, and enticing girls with furs
Notes
The original manuscript of this lists the tune as "The Rigs O Barley" -- i.e. presumably Burns's "Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs." The verse fits the first four lines of that tune, and the chorus of this fits the last four lines of the verse, but the chorus of "Corn Rigs" has to be omitted. - RBW
References
- Ryan/Small, p. 133, "Hunting Seals" (1 text, tune referenced)
- BI, RySm133