While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping

Oh I've got a dog and a good dog too
And I keeps him in mi' keeping
For to catch those hares that run by night
While the gamekeepers lie a-sleeping

My dog and me went out one night
For to learn some education
Up jumped a hare and away she ran
Right into some large plantation

She had not gone so very far before
Something stopped her running
Oh, and oh she loudly cried
Stop a minute your uncle's coming

Oh I took out my little pen knife
And quickly I did paunch her
She turned out one of the female kind
How glad am I, I caught her

I picks her up and I smooths her down
And I puts her in mi' keeping
I says to mi' dog it's time to be going
While the gamekeepers lie a-sleeping

Away me and my dog did go back into the town
We took that hare to a labouring man and we sold it for a crown

We went into some public house
And there we got quite mellow
For we spent that crown and another one too
Don't you think I'm a good-hearted fellow

Oh I've got a dog and a good dog too
And I keeps him in mi' keeping
For to catch those hares that run by night
While the gamekeepers lie a-sleeping