<p class="tit-song">A DEER HUNT <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page379" name="page379"></SPAN>(p. 379)</span></p>
<p>One pleasant summer day it came a storm of snow;<br/>
I picked my old gun and a-hunting I did go.</p>
<p>I came across a herd of deer and I trailed them through the snow,<br/>
I trailed them to the mountains where straight up they did go.</p>
<p>I trailed them o'er the mountains, I trailed them to the brim,<br/>
And I trailed them to the waters where they jumped in to swim.</p>
<p>I cocked both my pistols and under water went,—<br/>
To kill the fattest of them deer, that was my whole intent.</p>
<p>While I was under water five hundred feet or more<br/>
I fired both my pistols; like cannons did they roar.</p>
<p>I picked up my venison and out of water came,—<br/>
To kill the balance of them deer, I thought it would be fun.</p>
<p>So <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page380" name="page380"></SPAN>(p. 380)</span> I bent my gun in circles and fired round a hill.<br/>
And, out of three or four deer, ten thousand I did kill.</p>
<p>Then I picked up my venison and on my back I tied<br/>
And as the sun came passing by I hopped up there to ride.</p>
<p>The sun she carried me o'er the globe, so merrily I did roam<br/>
That in four and twenty hours I landed safe at home.</p>
<p>And the money I received for my venison and skin,<br/>
I taken it all to the barn door and it would not all go in.</p>
<p>And if you doubt the truth of this I tell you how to know:<br/>
Just take my trail and go my rounds, as I did, long ago.</p>
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