The Oakley Hunt


Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2016
In: Articles Hunting Songs
Written by: Peter Brook
Hunt:

Composed expressly for the Hunt Dinner, November 18th 1836, and sung by the Author, “A Country Squire” this uses as a melody an air referred to as “Dash away! splash away! heigh, dash away!”.   First published in Bailys Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, March 1861) It may take a bit of digging to track this...
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