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So Selfish Runs the Hare

[ Roud 2455 ; trad.]

Martin Carthy sang So Selfish Runs the Hare in 1973 as part of the Morris Medley on the Albion Country Band’s 1976 album Battle of the Field. The other tunes in the medley were Mouresque, London Pride, Maid of the Mill, and Sheriff’s Ride.

Lyrics

Martin Carthy sings So Selfish Runs the Hare

Oh, so selfish runs the hare
And so cunning runs the fox.
Who would think this little calf
Would grow to a noble ox?
To live among the briars
And to run among the thorns,
And die the death that his father did
With a large pair of horns.

Chorus:
Horns, large horns,
Horns, large horns,
And die the death that his father did
With a large pair of horns.