[New Music] Shirley Collins & Davy Graham

I'm not sure what twisted by-way landed me on Shirley Collins & Davy Graham's version of Hares on the Mountain from Folk Roots, New Routes (1964), but I'm fairly certain that the last hundred plays clocked on this song have been due to me alone.

The lyrics make me laugh - as I'm quite certain the "Sally" in question quite thwarted the male in the song:

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.

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'd misled you.

If all you young men were hares on the mountain,
If all you young men were hares on the mountain,
How many young girls would take guns and go hunting?

If the young men could sing like blackbirds and thrushes,
If the young men could sing like blackbirds and thrushes,
How many young girls would go beating the bushes?

If all you young men were fish in the water,
If all you young men were fish in the water,
How many young girls would undress and dive after?

But the young men are given to frisking and fooling,
Oh, the young men are given to frisking and fooling,
So I'll leave them alone and attend to my schooling