A-hunting will we go
fictionnal song
Music by Myrtle Deverill
Words by Charlotte Deverill
'I won't sing the verse. It's just a lot of guff about the sun is high up in the sky and the morn is bright and fair, and so forth.'
'Quite.'
'The chorus is what brings home the bacon. It goes like this.'
[...]
'"Hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo!
A-hunting we will go, pom pom.
A-hunting we will go, Gussie."'
The Mating Season. Chapter 6
They moved slowly off with bowed heads, like a couple of pallbearers who have forgotten their coffin and had to go back for it, and to the rousing strains of 'Hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo, a-hunting we will go, pom pom', Esmond Haddock strode masterfully onto the stage.
The Mating Season. Chapter 22