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