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Version 1
            Simplified chord version of Shirley Collins 'Hares On The Mountain' as heard on her 1959 album 'Sweet England'
Originally played on banjo.
[Verse 1]
D                         G            D
If all you young men were hares on the mountain
    G                           D           A
How many young girls would take guns and go hunting?
[Chorus]
A      D             G              A         D
With a ri-fol-de-di, cal-ol-de-day, ri-fol-ai-de
[Verse 2]
D                                G              D
If the young men could sing like blackbirds and thrushes
    G                         D           A
How many young girls would go beating the bushes?
[Chorus]
A      D             G              A         D
With a ri-fol-de-di, cal-ol-de-day, ri-fol-ai-de
[Verse 3]
D                         G        D
If all you young men were rushes a-growing
    G                           D              A
How many young girls would take scythes and go mowing?
[Chorus]
A      D             G              A         D
With a ri-fol-de-di, cal-ol-de-day, ri-fol-ai-de
[Verse 4]
D                         G            D
If all you young men were ducks in the water
    G                        D              A
How many young girls would undress and dive after?
[Chorus]
A      D             G              A         D
With a ri-fol-de-di, cal-ol-de-day, ri-fol-ai-de
[Verse 5]
D                              G            D
But the young men are givеn to frisking and fooling
     G                     D           A
I'll leave them alone and attend to my schooling
[Chorus]
A      D             G              A         D
With a ri-fol-de-di, cal-ol-de-day, ri-fol-ai-de 
        
                