{"id":1743,"date":"2024-05-05T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/?page_id=1743"},"modified":"2024-12-11T21:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:20:36","slug":"1928-the-cricketers-of-hambledon-bruce-bunt-set-to-music-by-peter-warlock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/1928-the-cricketers-of-hambledon-bruce-bunt-set-to-music-by-peter-warlock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cricketers of Hambledon \u2013 Bruce Bunt (1928)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1743?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/1928-the-cricketers-of-hambledon-bruce-bunt-set-to-music-by-peter-warlock\/#Set_to_music_by_Peter_Warlock\" >Set to music by Peter Warlock<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/1928-the-cricketers-of-hambledon-bruce-bunt-set-to-music-by-peter-warlock\/#Footnotes\" >Footnotes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Set_to_music_by_Peter_Warlock\"><\/span>Set to music by Peter Warlock<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><br>I'll make a song of Hambledon, and sing it at The George<sup data-fn=\"013b5125-3a75-4a9e-8a67-003328439f63\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#013b5125-3a75-4a9e-8a67-003328439f63\" id=\"013b5125-3a75-4a9e-8a67-003328439f63-link\">1<\/a><\/sup>,<br>Of balls that flew from Beldham's<sup data-fn=\"73b5889e-d983-406b-9bb4-859773ab1559\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#73b5889e-d983-406b-9bb4-859773ab1559\" id=\"73b5889e-d983-406b-9bb4-859773ab1559-link\">2<\/a><\/sup> bat like sparks from Fennex' forge;<br>The centuries of Aylward<sup data-fn=\"00cf3748-9e7d-49f1-ae51-d731bc404aa9\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#00cf3748-9e7d-49f1-ae51-d731bc404aa9\" id=\"00cf3748-9e7d-49f1-ae51-d731bc404aa9-link\">3<\/a><\/sup>, and a thousand guineas bet,<br>And Sueter<sup data-fn=\"ba47667c-d815-4ce9-94a9-070aa2632130\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#ba47667c-d815-4ce9-94a9-070aa2632130\" id=\"ba47667c-d815-4ce9-94a9-070aa2632130-link\">4<\/a><\/sup> keeping wicket to the thunderbolts of Brett<sup data-fn=\"214c60c8-befb-4a42-b90d-e026344bb7ef\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#214c60c8-befb-4a42-b90d-e026344bb7ef\" id=\"214c60c8-befb-4a42-b90d-e026344bb7ef-link\">5<\/a><\/sup>.<br><br><em>Then up with every glass and we'll sing a toast in chorus:<br>\"The cricketers of Hambledon who played the game before us,<br>The stalwarts of the olden time who rolled a lonely down,<br>And made the king of games for men, with Hambledon the crown.\"<\/em><br><br>Although they sang the nights away, their afternoons were spent<br>In beating men of Hertfordshire and flogging men of Kent,<br>And when the flower of England fell to Taylor and his peers<sup data-fn=\"b0135257-d9a9-4c53-afc9-428e4ec165e8\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#b0135257-d9a9-4c53-afc9-428e4ec165e8\" id=\"b0135257-d9a9-4c53-afc9-428e4ec165e8-link\">6<\/a><\/sup>,<br>The fame of Hambledonians went ringing down the years.<br><br>The sun has left Broadhalfpenny<sup data-fn=\"031fe515-d08f-4937-9927-b638b0940026\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#031fe515-d08f-4937-9927-b638b0940026\" id=\"031fe515-d08f-4937-9927-b638b0940026-link\">7<\/a><\/sup>, and the moon rides overhead;<br>So pass the bottle round again for drinking to the dead<br>To Small<sup data-fn=\"0b96010e-4db6-49b6-8f0d-9dbbae108933\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#0b96010e-4db6-49b6-8f0d-9dbbae108933\" id=\"0b96010e-4db6-49b6-8f0d-9dbbae108933-link\">8<\/a><\/sup> and his companions all who gathered, lose or win,<br>To take their fill of Nyren's best when Nyren kept the inn.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/The-Cricketers-of-Hambledon.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Footnotes\"><\/span>Footnotes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"013b5125-3a75-4a9e-8a67-003328439f63\">The George Inn, kept by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/the-early-cricket-hall-of-fame\/#Richard_Nyren_1734_%E2%80%93_3797\">Richard Nyren<\/a> after he left the Bat and Ball <a href=\"#013b5125-3a75-4a9e-8a67-003328439f63-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"73b5889e-d983-406b-9bb4-859773ab1559\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/the-early-cricket-hall-of-fame\/#%E2%80%9CSilver%E2%80%9D_Billy_Beldham_1766_%E2%80%93_1862\">Silver Billy Beldham<\/a> <a href=\"#73b5889e-d983-406b-9bb4-859773ab1559-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 2\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"00cf3748-9e7d-49f1-ae51-d731bc404aa9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/the-early-cricket-hall-of-fame\/#James_Aylward_1741_%E2%80%93_1827\">James Aylward<\/a> <a href=\"#00cf3748-9e7d-49f1-ae51-d731bc404aa9-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 3\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"ba47667c-d815-4ce9-94a9-070aa2632130\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/the-early-cricket-hall-of-fame\/#Tom_Sueter_1750_%E2%80%93_1827\">Tom Sueter<\/a> <a href=\"#ba47667c-d815-4ce9-94a9-070aa2632130-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 4\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"214c60c8-befb-4a42-b90d-e026344bb7ef\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/the-early-cricket-hall-of-fame\/#Thomas_Brett_1747_%E2%80%93_1809\">Thomas Brett<\/a> <a href=\"#214c60c8-befb-4a42-b90d-e026344bb7ef-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 5\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"b0135257-d9a9-4c53-afc9-428e4ec165e8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/matches-to-remember\/#Hambledon_v_All_England_1777\">Hambledon beat England by an Innings and 168 runs<\/a> <a href=\"#b0135257-d9a9-4c53-afc9-428e4ec165e8-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 6\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li 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