Dogs And Ferrets - Steeleye Span

Traditional

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

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 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

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»