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Title
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Poor old horse
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Singer
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Eggleton, John
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Notes
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Williams, Alfred: Ms: 'The difference here is not very great, but it is a difference. I believe another verse is wanting. Words obtained of John Eggleton, Blunsdon, Wiltshire. In Bell's 'Songs of the English peasantry' this is called the 'Mummer's song', and it is said that one of the company was dressed in the hide of a horse, and that the horses jaws were snapped together at the end of the chorus.'
Williams, Alfred: WGS: 'The difference here is not very great, but it is a difference. There is a lost stanza. I believe that another verse is wanting. Words obtained of John Eggleton, Blunsdon, Wiltshire. In Bell's 'Songs of the English peasantry' this is called the 'Mummer's song', and it is said that one of the company was dressed in the hide of a horse, and that the horses jaws were snapped together at the end of the chorus.'
Williams, Alfred: FSUT: 'The difference here is not very great. I believe another verse is wanting. Words obtained of John Eggleton, Blunsdon, Wiltshire. In Bell's 'Songs of the English peasantry' this is called the 'Mummer's song', and it is said that one of the company was dressed in the hide of a horse, and that the horses jaws were snapped together at the end of the chorus.'
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
