http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/pages.asp?type=M&url=153_The+Story+of+John+Peel&lvl=,50,162,165,153, Hi Janet - Are you referring to this old English hunting song? Maybe you can get your questions answered at the above website. JOHN PEEL D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey, D'ye ken John Peel at the break of day, D'ye ken John Peel when he's far away, With his hounds and his horn in the morning. Chorus: T'was the sound of his horn called me from my bed And the cry of his hounds has me oft-times led, Peel's 'view halloa' would awaken the dead Or the fox from his lair in the morning. D'ye ken that bitch whose tongue was death? D'ye ken her sons of peerless faith? D'ye ken that fox, with his last breath Curs'd them all as he died in the morning? Yes I ken John Peel and Ruby too Ranter and Royal and Bellman as true, >From the drag to the chase, from the chase to the view >From a view to the death in the morning And I've followed John Peel both often and far, O'er the rasper fence and the gate and the bar, >From low Denton Holme up to Scratchmere Scar, Where we view for the brush in the morning Then here's to John Peel with my heart and soul Come fill - fill to him another strong bowl, And we'll follow John Peel through fair and through foul While we're waked by his horn in the morning. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet McCrosky" <mej@cfanet.com> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:20 AM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951"-Dublin-born Ms. Eavan BOLAND > That mention of "John Peel" brings back memories of junior high and a > music > teacher with a most remarkable bass-baritone and no trace of his UK > heritage > accent. > Question: Was John Peel an Irishman or an Englishman? Does anyone know > where > I can locate a CD with some famous baritone singing it? It would have to > be > in a collection of folk-songs (?). > Janet