ID: 67
Date: 1930
Title: Up the airy mountain
Gender: Male 
Classification: Fun 
Rhyme: 

Up the airy mountain, down the musty glen, 
We daren't go a hunting, for fear of little men. 
Wee folk, tiny folk, banding all together, 
Red jackets, green caps, and white owl's feather.

(NZ, 1930s)

--
 
Background Info: Similar to a version quoted by Opie, 1988:132 beginning: 
"Up the heathery mountains, down the rushy glen", being part of a song entitled "Charlie is my darling".

==

Traditional Irish ballad known as Shane Crossagh begins:

It's up the heathery mountains and down the rocky glen
Squire Staples has gone hunting Shane Crossagh and his men,
With forty mounted yeoman that galloped in a stream
They swear they'll 'gin the gallows work when they come back again.

www.madcelts.com/htm/lyrics.htm (accessed 15 January, 2007)

==
 
Keywords: Irish 
Location: NZ 
Group size: 1 
Incidence: 1