Old Bangum and the Boar- Hayes (VA) 1956 Chase
[From American Folk Tales and Songs: Page 127 by Richard Chase - 1956. Chase ran the Whitetop Festival in Virginia for a number of years in the 1930s. Be became friends with a number of traditional performers including Wards, Hicks, Harmons and blind singer Horton Barker. Chase's notes follow:
This is from Jim Hayes, Jr. of southwestern Virginia, and is given just as he sang it. "Little Jim" Hayes is the model for "Tom Hunt" at whose house, one "Old Christmas Eve" -this night of the Twelfth Day of Christmas which comes on the sixth of January
-we told tales from about dark till daylight the next morning. The notation is facsimile from John Powell's hand.
R. Matteson 2014]
Old Bangum and the Boar- American Folk Tales and Songs: Page 127; Richard Chase - 1956
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1. There is a wild boar in these woods,
Dill-um day! Dillum down!
There is a wild boar in these woods,
Dill-um day! Dillum down!
There is a wild boar in these woods,
He'll eat your flesh and drink your blood,
Kummo Kay! Cuttle down! Killo-kay qumm!
2. Old Bangum went to the wild boar's den,
Dillum day! Dillum down!
Old Bangum went to the wild boar's den,
Dillum day! Dillum down!
Old Bangum Went to the wild boar's den,
Dillum day! Dillum down!
He saw the bones of a thousand men.
Kummo Kay! Cuttle down! Killo-kay qumm!
3. Old Bangum blew his bugle horn,
Dillum day! Dillum down!
Old Bangum blew his bugle horn,
Dillum day! Dillum down!
Old Bangum blew his bugle horn,
Dillum day! Dillum down!
caused the wild boar to come running home.
Kummo Kay! Cuttle down! Killo kay qumm!
4. The wild boar came in such a dash,
he cut his way through oak and ash.
5. Old Bangum drew his wooden[1] knife,
he swore he'd take the wild boar's life.
6. They fit four hours of the day,
Old Bangum took the wild boar's life away.
1. originally woodsman's knife