03 Dec 2012
Now we know that the tradition of Hunt the Wren is fairly widespread across the British and Irish Isles, but how about this:
Bill Galbraith came across this version of Hunting The Wren in "Texas Folk Songs" by William A. Owens.
http://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/bookid/146?ID=146
The author classifies it under "Songs And Games For Children”, and says that it was the first song he ever knew, learned from his mother as a nursery song and from his brothers as a game.
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