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138 TRADITIONAL TUNES.
In Fylingdale parish, near to Ramsdale Mill,
Bold reynard was headed all up a steep hill ;
There were many employed in cutting the rocks,
But they threw down their tools and they followed the fox,
While the hills and the valleys did oft-times echo,
And resound to " Hark, forward ! Tally-ho ! Tally-ho I"
I have no wish to inflict upon the readers more than two verses
of this effusion. Like all the songs of its class, it runs to about
twenty verses, and the prowess of every fox-hunting squire and
yeoman of the district is chronicled ; highly interesting to those
who know the descendants of the persons mentioned, but rather
monotonous to the general reader.
The adjoining parish of Goathland, jealous of the fame of the
Fylingdale song, some thirty or forty years ago produced one to the
Now, it's all you brave sportsmen I pray you draw near,
If you'll listen to me your spirits I'll cheer,
For a day of hunting I'd have you enjoy,
In Goathland parish, with a loud Tally-ho !
Where the hills and the valleys, etc.
There's John Brockett the huntsman, he rides like a man,
Likewise William Dowson as fast as he can ;
And all of the sportsmen are galloping so true,
Expecting bold reynard they'll very soon view.
When the hills and the valleys, etc.
Etc. etc.
The air is a good one, and sounds well sung by a few well-tuned
and lusty voices. It is originally one of the numerous tunes to the
songs which have a Berry Down refrain, but is not a published
one.
The old favourite, "The Yorkshire Horsedealers," among others
is sung to a version of this air in North Yorkshire.
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