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In its own understated way it's actually a chilling ballad, beautifully arranged and sung, with all the naked, unsentimental candor only available in the folk music tradition.
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An arrangement of the traditional song Hares on the Mountains [Roud 329].
lyrics
Oh Sally, my dear, it's you I'd be kissing
Oh Sally, my dear, it's you I'd be kissing
She smiled and replied, you don't know what you're missing
If all the young maids sang like blackbirds and thrushes (x2)
How many young men would go beating the bushes?
If all the young maids were ducks on the water (x2)
How many young men would undress and dive under?
If all the young maids were hares on the mountain (x2)
How many young men would take guns and go hunting?
Oh Sally, my dear, I wish I could wed you
Oh Sally, my dear, I wish I could bed you
She smiled and replied, then you'd say I misled you
If all the young men were rushes a-growing (x2)
How many young maids would take scythes and go mowing?
If all the young men were sheep in the meadow (x)
How many young maids would be burning the tallow?
If all the young men were hares on the mountain (x2)
How many young mids would take guns and go hunting?
credits
released March 4, 2022
Traditional, arranged by Fern Maddie with honor to Shirley Collins
Co-Produced by Fern Maddie and Colin McCaffrey
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Colin McCaffrey
fern maddie is an old-time balladeer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. she lives in the woods of northern vermont (n'dakinna) where she makes music and tends goats.
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