And for to chase—O!
To chase the buck and doe.
Refrain—With Hal-an-tow! Rumbelow!
Refrain— For we are up as soon as any O!
Refrain— And for to fetch the summer home,
Refrain— The summer and the May O!
Refrain— For summer is a-come O!
Refrain— And winter is a-gone O!
The whole of this song may be found with the music in the Rev. Baring Gould’s “Songs of the West,” and the first verse set to another tune in Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect, by Uncle Jan Trenoodle. (Sandys.)
The Hal-an-tow are privileged to levy contributions on strangers coming into the town.