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A Hunting I Will Go/ A Hunting We Will Go/Hunting We Will Go
Traditional Children's Song based on "A-Begging I Will Go"
ARTIST: Kididdles
CATEGORY: Children's Bluegrass Songs
EARLIEST DATE: 1800s; 1907
RECORDING INFO: A Hunting We Will Go
Glazer, Tom / Treasury of Songs for Children, Songs Music, Fol (1964/1981), p 14 (A-Hunting We Will Go)
Papala. American Hammered Dulcimer, Vol. 2. 25 Years with the O.D.P.C., L-Three 8x510, LP (1988), trk# 4a
Ploeg, Pam Vander. Dulcimer Players News, DPN, Ser, 9/3, p26(1983) (Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go)
REFERENCES (3 citations): Randolph 874, "A Is for Apple Pie" (3 texts plus an excerpt, but the "D" text is "The Average Boy")
Opie-Oxford2 1, "A was an apple-pie" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #611, pp. 240-241, "(A was an apple-pie)"
Roud #7539
RELATED TO: "A Begging I Will Go"
OTHER NAMES: "Hunting I Will Go" "Hunting We Will Go"
SOURCES: Kididdles; Wiki; Folk Index;
NOTES: Traditional song based on the English tradtional song, "A-Begging I will Go." The current popular song uses the same melody and form as the first part of "The Farmer in the Dell."
From wiki- Farmer in The Dell: The rhyme is first recorded in Germany in 1826, as "Es fuhr ein Bau'r ins Holz," and was more clearly a courtship game with a farmer choosing a wife, then in turn the selecting of a child, maid, and serving man, who leaves the maid after kissing.[1] This was probably taken to North America by German immigrants, where it next surfaced in New York in 1883 much in its modern form and using a melody similar to "A Hunting We Will Go".[1] From here it seems to have been adopted in through the United States, Canada (noted from 1893), the Netherlands (1894) and Great Britain; it is first found in Scotland in 1898 and England from 1909. In the early twentieth century it was evident as wide as France ("Le fermier dans son pré"), Sweden ("En bonde i vår by"), Australia, and South Africa.
A song version appears in the 1907 The Railway Conductor, Volume 24 - Page 987
Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen:
A hunting I will go,
A hunting I will go,
The dogs all join the jovial cry,
A hunting I will go
A Hunting We Will Go
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
Heigh ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
We'll catch a fox and put him in a box,
And then we'll let him go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
Heigh ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
We'll catch a fish and put him on a dish,
And then we'll let him go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
Heigh ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
We'll catch a bear and cut his hair,
And then we'll let him go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
Heigh ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
We'll catch a pig and dance a little jig,
And then we'll let him go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
Heigh ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go!
A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
We'll catch a giraffe and make him laugh,
And then we'll let him go!
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