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Dogs And Ferrets

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Steeleye Span Canonical path: /steeleye-span/dogs-and-ferrets Related lyric paths: 6

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Dogs And Ferrets

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I keep my dogs and I keep my ferrets

I have them in my keeping

To catch those hares that run by night

While the game keepers lie sleeping

My dogs and I went out on a cold night

For to view the habitation

Up jumped a hare and away she did ran

Straight into a plantation

I keep my dogs and I keep my ferrets

I have them in my keeping

To catch those hares that run by night

While the game keepers lie sleeping

She had not gone a long way in

When something caught her running

So loudly then I heard her cry

For she knew the dogs were coming

I keep my dogs and I keep my ferrets

I have them in my keeping

To catch those hares that run by night

While the game keepers lie sleeping

I took my knife all in my hand

So quickly for to paunch her

She was one of the female kind

How glad I was I'd caught her

I keep my dogs and I keep my ferrets

I have them in my keeping

To catch those hares that run by night

While the game keepers lie sleeping

Then I'll go down to some ale house near

And I'll drink that hare quite mellow

I'll spend a crown and a merry crown too

And say "I'm a right good fellow"

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