The Lincolnshire poacher (Thomas Dunhill)

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• (Posted 2021-12-24)  CPDL #67215:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-12-24).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 259 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: The Lincolnshire poacher
Composer: Thomas Dunhill
Lyricist: Traditional
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1930 Novello's The Orpheus no.614
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

1  When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up to poaching, as you shall quickly hear,
Oh! 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

2  As me and my comarade were setting of a snare,
'Twas then we spied the gamekeeper, for him we did not care,
For we can wrestle and fight, my boys, and jump o'er anywhere,
Oh! 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

3  As me and my comarade were setting four or five,
And taking on 'em up again, we caught a hare alive,
We took the hare alive, my boys, and thro' the woods did steer,
Oh! 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

4  I threw him on my shoulder, and then we trudgèd home,
We took him to a neighbour's house, and sold him for a crown,
We sold him for a crown, my boys, but I did not tell you where,
Oh! 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

5  Success to ev'ry gentleman that lives in Lincolnshire.
Success to ev'ry poacher that wants to sell a hare,
Bad luck to ev'ry gamekeeper that will not sell his deer,
Oh! 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.