Tarporley Swan-Hopping


Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2016
In: Hunting Songs
Written by: Helen Brook

This song was written by a Mr Warburton to mark one hundred years of the Tarporley Hunt Club in 1862.  It was apparently sung after dinner on the Wednesday of that year’s Tarporley Week, and was reproduced in the December 1862 issue of Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes.   When a Swan takes to...
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