{"id":9082,"date":"2020-09-01T06:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2020-09-01T06:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T10:20:35","slug":"the-keeper-did-a-hunting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9082","title":{"rendered":"The Keeper Did A-Hunting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Keeper.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Keeper.mp3\"><br \/>\nThe Keeper Did A-Hunting Go &#8211; Click To Play &#8211; Photo by Linda Lee <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>This old English song (Roud 1519) dates back to the 14th century. A favorite of school children in the UK and abroad.<br \/>\nThe hunting of the doe in this song originally suggested sexual pursuit, although this implication is quite lost on the children who now sing this song at school. &#8220;The second doe he trimmed he kissed&#8221; &#8220;Trimmed&#8221; meaning to hold a woman around the waist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n[D]The keeper did a [G] hunting [D] go<br \/>\n[D] And under his cloak he [G] carried a [D] bow<br \/>\nAll for to shoot a merry little [A] doe<br \/>\n[D] Among the leaves so [A] green, [D] O.<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus:)<br \/>\n[D] Jackie boy! (Master!) Sing ye well! (Very well!)<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry [A] down<br \/>\n[D] Among the leaves so [A] green, [D] O<br \/>\nTo my hey down down (To my ho down down )<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry [A] down<br \/>\n[D] Among the leaves so [A] green, [D] O<\/p>\n<p>The first doe he shot at he missed;<br \/>\nThe second doe he trimmed he kissed;<br \/>\nThe third doe went where nobody wist<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O.<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus:)<br \/>\nJackie boy! (Master!) Sing ye well! (Very well!)<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<br \/>\nTo my hey down down (To my ho down down )<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<\/p>\n<p>The fourth doe she did cross the plain,<br \/>\nThe keeper fetched her back again.<br \/>\nWhere she is now, she may remain,<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O.<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus:)<br \/>\nJackie boy! (Master!) Sing ye well! (Very well!)<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<br \/>\nTo my hey down down (To my ho down down )<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<\/p>\n<p>The fifth doe she did cross the brook;<br \/>\nThe keeper fetched her back with his crook;<br \/>\nWhere she is now you may go and look<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O.<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus:)<br \/>\nJackie boy! (Master!) Sing ye well! (Very well!)<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<br \/>\nTo my hey down down (To my ho down down )<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<\/p>\n<p>The sixth doe she ran over the plain;<br \/>\nBut he with his hounds did turn her again,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s there he did hunt in a merry, merry vein<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, 0.<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus:)<br \/>\nJackie boy! (Master!) Sing ye well! (Very well!)<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<br \/>\nTo my hey down down (To my ho down down )<br \/>\nHey down (Ho down) Derry derry down<br \/>\nAmong the leaves so green, O<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Keeper Did A-Hunting Go &#8211; Click To Play &#8211; Photo by Linda Lee This old English song (Roud 1519) dates back to the 14th century. A favorite of school children in the UK and abroad. The hunting of the doe in this song originally suggested sexual pursuit, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Keeper Did A-Hunting Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9088,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}