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Bonny Hounds of Weardale

from SINGING THE LEAD by Tony Morris

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about the sporting/hunting practices of the Lead Miners of Weardale

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THE BONNY HOUNDS OF WEARDALE
Chorus
They’re bonny hounds and brave hounds
That race across the fell:
They’re bonny lads and brave lads
That breed and train ‘em well.

At crack o’ dawn with chores all done
It’s a bright clear day,
No scent to find till the frost is gone,
We’ll still be on our way.
We’ll bring our hounds to the meeting point
And old Ralph will hunt them well
With horn and holloa,
And we’ll all follow,
To find a hare on the fell.
Chorus
Well Puss is up an away she gans,
Flying across the moor,
Wi yan lug up an’ yan clept back,
She’s viewed to a mighty roar
Of screams and shouts from all the lads,
It gets the hounds heads up:
It makes old Ralph quite sore.
Chorus
So, Ralph he casts them once again
Till hounds pick up the scent.
Noses down, lemon and white,
Black and tan, away they gan,
With bell like cry,the Dale is rent.
Chorus
Well, Puss has gone by Cauldknockles
And up past Pumpyhall.
She’s run the waters of Burnhope burn
And over brow she twists and turns.
And in the heather she’s clapped down.
Chorus
Whey another hare is up and away
As if it were all arranged.
So, off go hounds with a hullaballoo,
And off go lads with a great to do
And the brave lads and the bonny lads
Don’t know their hare has changed.
Chorus


Well, the bonny lads, they carry on
Until its long past noon
When they retire to the Hare and Hounds
For craic and song and bumper rounds
And the bonny hounds make their own way home
Where Missus will feed them well,
For the bonny lads of Weardale
Will not give up song, ale and tale,
Till the Moon has lit the fell.

They’re bonny hounds and brave hounds
That race across the fell:
They’re bonny lads and brave lads
That breed and train ‘em well.
They’re bonny hounds and brave hounds
That race across the fell:
They’re bonny lads and brave lads
That breed and train ‘em well.

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from SINGING THE LEAD, released October 20, 2014
Written and sung by Tony Morris

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Tony Morris Whitby, UK

TONY MORRIS is an Own Brand Performer and Entertainer who performs his own songs and music.".
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