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RUFFORD PARK POACHERS developed by Patrick O'Shaughnessy |
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Version A A buck or doe believe it so A pheasant or a hare Were set on earth for everyone Quite equally to share CHORUS: So poacher bold, as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart And think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park They say that forty gallant poachers They were in distress They'd often been attacked when Their number it was less : CHORUS Among the gorse, to settle scores Those forty gathered stones To make a fight for poor men's rights And break the keepers' bones : CHORUS The keepers went with flails against The poachers and their cause So no man there again would dare Defy the rich man's laws : CHORUS The keepers they began the fray With stones and with their flails When the poachers started o'er They quickly turned their tails : CHORUS Upon the ground with mortal wound Head keeper Roberts lay He never will rise up until The final judgement day : CHORUS Of all that band who made a stand To set a net or snare The four men brought before the court Were tried for murder there : CHORUS The Judge he said "For Robert's death Transported you must be To serve a term of forty years In convict slavery" : CHORUS |