I found this amazing recording of Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick from 1969, where this song is used in the context of English class conflict:
• Martin Carthy & Dave S...
We have many hundreds of beautiful Fairy Wren's living in our yard and the surrounding river land here in Australia. Photos of wren's from Pixabay.
The lyrics (and most of the melody) I am using here is from The Cambrian Journal, in 1857:
archive.org/details/cambrianj...
The Cambrian tradition seems clearly connected to the Wren Boys of Ireland:
pilgrimagemedievalireland.com...
Thanks to @Wotsitorlabart for pointing me to the variant of this song in 'Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book'. This song is titled 'Robin and Bobbin'. Published date on this copy is 1815, but there are said to be versions of this book from 1744:
ia800308.us.archive.org/16/it...
www.sligoheritage.com/archwre...
The lyrics in this Cambrian version make it very clear that the boys are going out to hunt something considerably larger than a wren.
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