Bangum and the Boar- Broadhead (Mo.) c. 1851; Belden B
[From: Five Old-Country Ballads by Belden; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 25, No. 96 (Apr. - Jun., 1912), pp. 171-178. Also in Ballads and Songs; 1940, Belden Ed.; Version B.
R. Matteson 2014]
3. BANGUM AND THE BOAR (Child, 18)
Some fragments of this were printed in this Journal, vol. xix, p. 235. The following version was written out for Professor Belden by Professor G. C. Broadhead of Columbia, Mo. in 1911, who tells him he has known it for nearly sixty years.
"There is a wild boar in these woods
Dillum down dillum
There is a wild boar in these woods
Dillum down.
There is a wild boar in these woods
Who'll eat your flesh and drink your blood."
Kobby ky cuddle down killy quo cum.
"Oh how shall I this wild boar see?"
"I'll blow a blast and he'll come to me."
Old Bangum blew both loud and shrill;
The wild board heard on Temple Hill.
The wild boar dashed with such a rash
He tore his way through oak and ash.
Old Bangum drew his wooden knife
And swore he'd take the wild boar's life.
They fought four hours in a day;
At last the wild boar stole away.
They traced the wild boar to his den,
And found the bones of a thousand men.