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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V3837

Titles:
The Holderness fox hunt

First Lines:
You Holderness sportsmen attend to the chase

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7486

Titles:
The grand chorus of huntsmen in Der Frieschutz [sic]
Huntsmans chorus
Chorus of huntsmen in Der Freitscuhz [sic]
Chorus of huntsmen in Der Freishutz [sic]

First Lines:
What equals on earth, the delights [of] the hunstman
What equals on earth the delights of the huntsman
What equals on earth the delight of the huntsman
What equals on earth the delights of the huntsmen
What equals on earth the delight of the hunsman [sic]
What joys are the life of a huntsman surrounding

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7487

Titles:
The huntsmen
The huntsman

First Lines:
Dull night leaves the sky, and the bright god of day

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 878

Titles:
The echoing horn

First Lines:
The echoing horn

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V2069

Titles:
Come rouse, brother sportsmen

First Lines:
Come rouse, brother sportsmen, the hunters all cry

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V5980

Titles:
The hunting of the hare: wi[t]h her last will and testament
The hunting of the hare; with her last will and testament

First Lines:
Of all the delights the earth doth yield
Of all delights that earth doth yield

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 385

Titles:
Batchelor's hall
Bachelor's hall. A favorite song
Bachelors' hall
Bachelor's hall

First Lines:
To Bachelors' hall we good fellows invite
To Batchelor's hall we good fellows invite
To Bachelor's hall we brave sportsmen invite
To Bachelors'-hall we good fellows invite
To Bachelor's hall we good fellows invite

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V3343

Titles:
Fly care to the winds
The greyhound fly

First Lines:
Fly care to the winds, thus I blow thee away
Ye who in coursing take delight

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V2935

Titles:
Dusky night
The dusky night

First Lines:
The dusky night rides down the sky

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V10281

Titles:
The Puckeridge hunt: a cub-hunting song, for October, 1853

First Lines:
Near the town of Great Hadham, I vow and declare

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V8701

Titles:
Hark thro' the woods, &c

First Lines:
Hark! thro' the woods the rising sound

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7181

Titles:
The tiger hunters. A glee
The tiger-hunters

First Lines:
O'er dreary wastes & deserts wild
O'er dreary wastes and deserts wild

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V9298

Titles:
Princely diversion: or The jovial hunting-match

First Lines:
One Valentine's day in the morning

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V155

Titles:
Mountain's brow
Away, away to the mountain's brow
Away to the mountain brow
Away to the mountain's brow
The mountain's brow

First Lines:
Away, away to the mountain's brow

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7894

Titles:
To the fields, brave boys, let's repair

First Lines:
Hark! the goddess Diana

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V2095

Titles:
A new song, called The buck hunt
The buck hunt

First Lines:
On the 16th of March, eighteen hundred and nine
On the sixteenth of March, eighteen hundred and nine
On the 16th of March, 1809

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V3331

Titles:
The bright sunny morn

First Lines:
On a bright sunny morn bid [sic] the huntsman prepare

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V5465

Titles:
Wild boar hunt
The wild boar hunt

First Lines:
See the bright sunbeams of gold lights the mountain
See the bright moonbeam or [sic] gold lights the mountain
See the bright moonbeams [sic] or [sic] gold lights the mountain
See, the bright moonbeam of gold lights the mountain
See the bright sunbeam of gold lights the mountain

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7142

Titles:
A new song, called the Wakefield hunting

First Lines:
Attend jolly sportsman and listen a while

Subjects:
Northamptonshire (England)

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 1868

Titles:
Sly Reynard the fox

First Lines:
Some gentlemen take great delight

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 1110

Titles:
White hare

First Lines:
Its near Maxfield town boys as I heard them tell
It's near Maxwell town, my boys, as I hcard [sic] them tell
It's near Maxfield town, my boys, as I heard them tell
It's near Maxfield town boys as I heard them tell

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 1182

Titles:
Fox chase or Tally ho hark away
The fox chace
The fox chase

First Lines:
The sun had just peep'd his head o'er the hills
The sun had just peep'd his head over the hills

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V1942

Titles:
The sun is on the mountain

First Lines:
The sun is on the mountain

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V3560

Titles:
The morn unbars the gates of light

First Lines:
The morn unbars the gates of light

Themes:
Hunting

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 1519

Titles:
The huntsman's delight: or, The forresetrs [sic] pleasant pastime

First Lines:
Come all you young maidens and lend an ear

Themes:
Hunting

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