Fangstmanns blues

Fangstmanns blues

fat fox i Foxdalen

fanga minst førti, femti flokker fugl

frista ikke med tørrfisk i fella da, nei

fox faller ikke for fangstmannsfanteri

Trapper’s Blues

Fat fox in Fox Valley,

snatched some forty, fifty flocks of fowl

Didn't fall for the trap’s dried fish, oh no

fox no fool for a trapper’s tricks.

This poem was found scratched into the frame of an empty wooden fox trap that appeared to date to the 1920s.