Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Back to Joe Offer's collection today for a traditional song "Reynard the Fox".
The following notes accompanied the score and lyrics in the collection:
Source: Kennedy, D (1987) Martin Carthy: A Guitar in Folk Music. Petersham, New Punchbowl Music
Notes:
Recorded by Martin Carthy on Out of the Cut (Topic Records, 1982). Carthy notes:
"Reynard the Fox is memorable among other things for its use of the first person and is a Sussex version of a song which, considering the name - 'Gaffer Ghylls', probably has a more northern location. I learned it from Vic Gammon."
The song continues in tradition to this day, featuring in the repertoire of the Holme Valley Hunt in Yorkshire.
I have not heard Martin Carthy's version of the song and as usual with songs from this collection, I devised my own chord progression for my own version.
Back to Joe Offer's collection today for a traditional song "Reynard the Fox".
The following notes accompanied the score and lyrics in the collection:
Source: Kennedy, D (1987) Martin Carthy: A Guitar in Folk Music. Petersham, New Punchbowl Music
Notes:
Recorded by Martin Carthy on Out of the Cut (Topic Records, 1982). Carthy notes:
"Reynard the Fox is memorable among other things for its use of the first person and is a Sussex version of a song which, considering the name - 'Gaffer Ghylls', probably has a more northern location. I learned it from Vic Gammon."
The song continues in tradition to this day, featuring in the repertoire of the Holme Valley Hunt in Yorkshire.
I have not heard Martin Carthy's version of the song and as usual with songs from this collection, I devised my own chord progression for my own version.
