14 Jul 2008
The Fox Jumps Over the Parson’s Gate
England, Field Sports, Folk Music, Fox Hunting, Humor, Music, Videos
Illustration by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)
One of the people on the Fox Hunting email list this morning posted a link to this project Gutenberg edition of the Caldecott Picture Book illustrating the old comic song.
But it’s no fun without the music, so here’s Peter Bellamy singing it, too. 2:37 video
The Fox Jumps Over the Parson’s Gate is one of many examples of popular humor exploiting the irresistibility to man or beast, without respect to age, dignity, or sex, of the impulse to follow hounds after the fox.
