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JOVIAL HUNTER (2) Abe and Bailey had three sons; The youngest was called Center. He's gone to the Green's woods hunting Just like a jobal hunter. As he walked up the Green Brier Ridge, Blow your horn, Center, There he met a Gaily-Dee, Just like a jobal hunter. She says, "There is a wild boar in these woods; Blow your horn, Center, For he has killed my lord and forty men, As you are the jobal hunter. He says, "Oh, how am I to know?" Blow your horn, Center, Blow your horn north, east, west and south, As you are the jobal hunter." He blowed his horn nothr, east, west, and south, Blow your horn, Center. The wild boar hear him unto his den, Just like a jobal hunter. And as they crossed the White Oak Mountain, Blow your horn, Center, On their way they went again, Just like a jobal hunter. As he slayed the wild boar, Blow your horn, Center, The oak and ash they did bend, As he was a jobal hunter. They met the old witch wife on a bridge, Blow your horn, Center, "Begone, you rogue; you've killed my pig, As you are the jobal hunter. She says, "These three things I crave of yourn, Blow your horn, Center, 'S your 'hawk, your hound, and your Gaily-Dee, As you are the jobal hunter." He says, "These three things you can't have of mine." Blow your horn, Center. "Is my 'hawk, my hound, and my Gaily-Dee," Just like a jobal hunter. He split the old witch wife through the chin, Blow your horn, Center. And on their way they went again, As you are the jobal hunter. Burton did not record Rena Hicks singing this song, since she could no longer sing, and does not give any music for it. If you compare the lyrics of this version with those of Sam Harmon, you will see that they are directly related, and I think, come from a common source, the Hicks/Harmon family tradition. I especially like the "Gaily-Dee". Phyllis Boyens on PASSING THRU THE GARDEN (June Appal 001) Thomas G. Burton, SOME BALLAD FOLKS, has Buna Hicks' Child #18 @animal filename[ WLDBOAR6 JM Feb07  8note Sheet |
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