D'ye ken John Peel (song)

This article is about the song. For the film, see D'Ye Ken John Peel?
"D'ye ken John Peel?"
Song
Writtenc. 1824
Published1866
Genre
English folk, pop, world, English country (unofficial anthem of the Cumberland region)
Lyricist(s)John Woodcock Graves –
     (1795-02-09)9 February 1795
     Wigton, Cumberland, England
     17 August 1886(1886-08-17) (aged 91)
     Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

"D'ye ken John Peel?" – which translates to "Do you know John Peel?" – is a famous Cumberland hunting song written around 1824 by John Woodcock Graves (1795–1886) in celebration of his friend John Peel (1776–1854), an English fox hunter from the Lake District. The melody is said to be a contrafactum of a popular border rant, "Bonnie Annie." A different version, the one that endures today, was musically adapted in 1869 by William Metcalfe (1829–1909), the organist and choirmaster of Carlisle Cathedral.[1][2][3][4][5] The tune etymology has a long history that has been traced back to 1695 and attributed to adaptations – one in particular, from the 20th century, the 1939 jingle, "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot."[2]

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