| "A-Hunting We Will Go" | |
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| Published | 1777 |
| Composer(s) | Thomas Augustine Arne |
"A-Hunting We Will Go" is a popular folk song and nursery rhyme composed in 1777 by English composer Thomas Arne. Arne had composed the song for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera in London.
The a- is an archaic intensifying prefix; compare "Here We Come A-wassailing/Here We Come A-caroling" and lyrics to "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (e.g., “Six geese a-laying”).
See also
- A-Haunting We Will Go (disambiguation), a title play on this song
- "Bye, baby Bunting, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting", a similarly constructed song
- "Ee Aye Addio" - an English football chant to the same tune
- "The Farmer in the Dell" - a song with similar lyrics, content, and music
- "You're in the Army Now" - another song with similar lyrics
References
- Kelly, Ian (2012). Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London. Pan Macmillan. p. 15.
- Sexuality in Eighteenth-century Britain. Manchester University Press. 1982. p. 250.
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