While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping

Oh, I've got a dog, and a good dog too

And I keeps him in my 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 run

Right into some large plantation

She had not gone so very far

Before something stopped her running

Oh, and to one she loudly cried

"Stop a minute, your uncle's coming"

Oh, I took out my little penknife

And quickly I did butcher

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 my keeping

I says to my 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 my keeping

For to catch those hares that run by night

While the gamekeepers lie a-sleeping