Ebernoe Horn Fair

25 July – The horn fair is a centuries old that was revived in Ebernoe in 1864. The current festivities surround a cricket match between the Ebernoe team and that of a nearby village.  The highest scoring batsman receives a pair of horns taken from a sheep that the villages had been roasting throughout the day.

Horn Fair Song

As I was a-walking one fine summer morn,
So soft was the wind and the waves on the corn.
I met a pretty damsel upon a grey mare,
And she was a-riding upon a grey mare.

“Now take me up behind you fair maid for to ride”,
“Oh no and then, Oh no, for my mammy she would chide,
And then my dear old daddy would beat me full sore,
And never let me ride on his grey mare no more.”

“If you would see Horn Fair you must walk on your way,
I will not let you ride on my grey mare today,
You’d rumple all my muslin and uncurl my hair,
And leave me all distrest to be seen at Horn Fair.”

“O fairest of damsels, how can you say No?
With you I do intend to Horn Fair for to go,
We’ll join the best of company when we do get there,
With horns on their heads, boys, the finest at the Fair.”