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Hares in the Old Plantation
The Watersons
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When I was young and in my prime
I thought it was provoking
I had two dogs all of my own
I kept them for my sporting
When I had two dogs and a gun too
I kept them for my keeping
All for to kill some game at night
When the keepers they were sleeping
I and my dogs went out one night
To view a habitation
What started one, right away she ran
Right away into my plantation
Before I could get half a field or more
Or very little further
Up jumped another old hare and away the dogs went
"Mayday," shrieked my dear
Up she jumped and followed out and
When the dogs they stopped her running
"Oh, pray, poor puss, do you lay still
For your uncle is a-coming"
I picked her up had a broken leg
And into my pocket put her
Then sighed to myself, "I had better be going
Before I meet some looker"
I went into a neighbour's house
And I asked him what he'd give me
He said he'd give me a crown a brace
If I would bring him fifty
I went into a public house
And there I get quite mellow
I spent a crown and another one throwed down
Wasn't I a good-hearted fellow?