A-Hunting We Will Go

{{short description|English song and nursery rhyme}}

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{{Infobox song

| name =A-Hunting We Will Go

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| type = song

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| published = 1777

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| composer = Thomas Augustine Arne

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"A-Hunting We Will Go" is a popular folk song and nursery rhyme composed in 1777 by English composer Thomas Arne.{{cite book|author=Kelly, Ian|date=2012|title= Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London|page= 15|publisher= Pan Macmillan}} Arne had composed the song for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera in London.{{cite book |title=Sexuality in Eighteenth-century Britain |date=1982 |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=250}}

The a- is an archaic intensifying prefix; compare "Here We Come A-wassailing/Here We Come A-caroling" and lyrics to "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (e.g., “Six geese a-laying”).{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}