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Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song
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ESKDALE HARE
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Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song DigiTrad: ESKDALE HARE Related threads: Lyr Req: The White Hare of Eskdale (Anna Shannon) (7) Tune Req: The Eskdale Hare (4) Lyr Req: Eskdale Hare (13) |
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Subject: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: Shanty Kees Date: 01 Apr 03 - 03:24 PM Is there anyone who can help me to the words of "The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song". It was recorded "live" by Gary & Vera Aspey on their album "A Taste of Hotpot". I think the recording is from the seventies. If someone could also provide the chords it would even be better. Thanks for you help. Kees |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE ESKDALE AND ENNERDALE HUNT SONG From: greg stephens Date: 02 Apr 03 - 02:16 AM This is the version I know, I've never heard Gary and Vera Aspey's. I n fact I didnt know anybody ever had recorded irt, I thought it was just one of those songs you sing in pubs in Cumberland! 1) The dawn is here awake me lads Away Away The mist has left the brake me lad Away away away The clouds are rolling up the hill O'er fairy dell and silver ghyll Up frowning heights and rugged ghyll Away me lads away 2) The hounds are off so come me lads Their tails wave through the brake me lad Their voices ring frae yonder fell Oer hill and dale and mossy dell Where staghorn weaves its mystic spell 2) Bill Porter Hard is on the track A fox mun die ere he's come back Sae follow on we cannot fail We'll scour the hills beyond Black Sail And wake the wilds of Ennerdale 4) Theres Jackson Park and Jimmy Hind Wid gurt big Steele not far behind There's Robin too and good old Jack Baith fell-bred folk o'hunter's mak They'll taste some beer when they get back 5) Come strangers all and ladies fair We'll lead you to bold Reynard's lair A welcome we extend to all For Reynard oft is bad to find So rally now at Freedom's call You'll have to add all the "away me lads" yourself! I have written it in straight English unless the dialecty bits are essential. This version is more or less Bill Glaister's in Galgate from the 60's: the peenultimate line that doesnt rhyme is presumably a misremember of something. I like the last line "So rally now at freedom's call"...looks as if it was written for a Countrside Alliance march! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: greg stephens Date: 02 Apr 03 - 02:26 AM Made a mistake, too early in the morning. There's two more verses 6) Wi'sturdy limb and deeper breath We'll follow on until the death Then hungry at the Anglers Inn Oer tatie pot and ale we sing And make the whole caboodle ring 7)We're lads from east and lads from west And north and south but all the best With Auld Lang Syne and Old John Peel With foaming glass and nimble heel We'll drink to all good health and weal If this isnt in the DT, I think there's something you're meant to do to put it in, but I don't know what it is. |
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Subject: LYR ADD: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 02 Apr 03 - 06:51 AM This (see above). |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: greg stephens Date: 02 Apr 03 - 06:57 AM Are you trying to tell me something, Malcolm? Sorry, dont follow. I see your message says LYR ADD. Does that mean youve done whatever it is? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 02 Apr 03 - 07:40 AM I mean that's how you flag a lyric posting so that the "harvesters" can spot it. What happens after that is up to them, and to Dick and Susan who decide what actually goes into the DT. Are you able to post the tune as well? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: Shanty Kees Date: 02 Apr 03 - 12:46 PM Greg, Thank you very much, these are the lyrics I was looking for. All the best. Kees |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: greg stephens Date: 02 Apr 03 - 12:50 PM Malolm Douglas: I know the tune, but there is no easy way to post it. I dont speak abc notation, and I have no computer and scanner so I cant send anyone pictures of sheet music if I write it out. Mmario sent me some info once, which I've been too idle to follow up...I think he offered to process any sheet music I sent him. It could be a huge job, he sent a list of tunes the DT was short of, and I thought "well, next time I've got a week off", and then forgot about it! |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE ESKDALE AND ENNERDALE PACK From: GUEST,Master M'Grath Date: 03 Apr 03 - 02:50 AM I think this is the version sung by the Porter's. It is certainly the version that is recorded on the fell pack tapes. They have been masters of the E & E FH for 6 or 7 generations. I have a midi file and a cubase score file of the thing. Ask & you shall receive. Its a jolly song!! Eskdale and Ennerdale Pack. (The) Come hunter's lets go to the coverts below, And drive dull cares away We'll hunt the fox from off the rocks before the break of day Bold Reynard must die is the hunters cry as we speed o'er the mountain tracks For no fox in the land is able to stand t The Eskdale and Ennerdale Pack. So away we go together Across the dent and the heather Away we go with glee Over the Lune and the Lee Hark forward away on the break of day We'll follow the Hounds and their musical bay Our spirits never lack when hunters are on the track for no fox in the land is able to stand the Eskdale and Ennerdale Pack. for no fox in the land is able to stand the Eskdale and Ennerdale Pack. His form out on the open plain A fine fell fox reet through the rocks thats worried again and again Hip Hip hooray the hunt did say as they homeward make their track For no fox in the land is able to stand the Eskdfale and Ennerdale Pack Before I close these lines of prose I have one wish to say My hunters and hounds have good luck abounds and hunt for many a day May hunt is hail may they never fail to follow a huntsmens track |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: greg stephens Date: 03 Apr 03 - 03:29 AM great. Thanks for that Master m'grath. A quite different song, rather than a versionn, I reckon. Impressive outing if they can go over the Lune and Lee from west Cumberland!! They're tough in those parts. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Eskdale and Ennerdale Hunt Song From: delphinium Date: 03 Apr 03 - 08:02 PM On Gary & Vera Aspey's live recording on their album A Taste of Hotpot (Topic 12TS299, 1976), they sing verses 2, 3, 5, and 6 of Greg's verses above, and another verse between 5 & 6. I can't make out all the words but here's a try at the additional verse, with the especially unclear words in italics – the last phase is probably a serious mondegreen. Greg, you say you may have misremembered the penultimate line in your verse 5 so I am transcribing what I hear the Aspeys sing in that verse too – perhaps you may be able to correct some of this? Greg's verse (5) revised in 4th line and the additional verse: Come strangers all and ladies fairThe Aspeys' album notes about this song: This excellent hunting song, which gives the feeling of being carried along with the excitement of the hunt belongs, as the title states, to one of the Six Fell Packs of Cumberland. It is a slightly shortened version of the original and mentions Bill (or Will) Porter, who became Master of the Eskdale and Ennerdale Pack in 1910, succeeding Tommy Dobson who founded the pack and was Master from 1857 to 1910.My own $0.02 worth: yes an excellent song, the Aspeys have fun with it - the melody is related but more sprightly and more upbeat than those tunes. |
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