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Bangum and the Boar

from Old​-​Time Songs by Martha Burns

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Another animal song, I learned this version of Child ballad no. 18 in around 1973 or ’74 from my friend and early mentor Dan Gellert, whose hard-core old-time musicianship has always left me in awe. Dan understands the music like no one alive.

“Bangum and the Boar,” he sings to banjo accompaniment in an almost growling baritone voice that instantly places you in a primeval world of dark forests with fantastic creatures foraging the woods for human prey. “Where did you find your version?” I innocently asked him when Dan and I met up not long ago. Howie Mitchell’s 1962 Folk Legacy album, was his impassive response. Anyone familiar with these two wildly different musicians will know from this story that Dan is endlessly full of surprises.

Howie Mitchell found the song in H. M Belden, Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1940).

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Bangum would a wooin’ ride,
Dillum down, dillum down.
Bangum would a wooin’ ride,
Dillim down.
Bangum would a wooin’ ride,
Sword and buckler by his side,
Cub-ee-kee, cud-e-down, kill-e-quo-kum

Bangum rode to the greenwood side….
And there a pretty maid he spied….

There is a wild boar in these woods….
He’ll eat your flesh and suck your blood….

Well, how can I this wild boar see?...
Blast your horn, he’ll come to thee…..

Bangum clapped his horn to his mouth….
He blew a blast both loud and stout….

The wild boar come in such a rage….
He tore his way through oak and ash.

Bangum drew his wooden knife….
He swore he’d take that wild boar’s life.

They fought three hours in the day….
At last the wild boar stole away.

Bangum rode to the wild boar’s den….
He spied the bones of a thousand men.

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from Old​-​Time Songs, released October 13, 2021

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Old-time American folk songs the old-time way.

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