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D’ye Ken John Peel?

D’ye Ken John Peel?
a popular British song written in about 1829 by John Graves, a friend of a farmer called John Peel who for fifty years had a pack of hunting dogs in Cumberland. It is sung to an old folk tune, Bonnie Annie.

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