“Creeping Jane”

Description

Racehorse Creeping Jane is not well known, but wins a race despite a slow start -- and is still fresh, though the course exhausted the other animals. After Jane dies, plans are made to keep her body from the hounds

Cross references

• cf. "Bill Hopkin's Colt" (theme)
• cf. "Down the Road" (II) (theme)

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Firth c.19(76)[first line illegible], "Creeping Jane" ("I'll sing you a song, and a very pretty one"), E.M.A. Hodges (London), 1846-1854; also Firth c.19(73), Firth c.19(75), Harding B 11(174), "Creeping Jane"

Recordings

• Joseph Taylor, "Creeping Jane" (on Voice08)

References

1. Laws Q23, "Creeping Jane"
2. MacSeegTrav 114, "Creeping Jane" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Gardner/Chickering 99, "Creeping Jane" (1 text, 1 tune)
4. DT 532, CREEPJAN*
5. Roud #1012
6. BI, LQ23