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A buck or doe, believe it so |
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A pheasant or a hare |
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Were set on earth for everyone |
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Quite equally to share |
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So poacher bold as I unfold |
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Keep up your gallant heart |
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And think about those poachers bold |
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That night in Rufford Park |
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They say that forty gallant poachers |
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They were in distress |
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They'd often been attacked when |
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Their number, it was less |
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Among the gorse to settle scores |
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Those forty gathered stones |
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To make a fight for poor men's rights |
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And break the keepers bones |
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The keepers went with flails against |
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The poachers and their cause |
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So no man there again would dare |
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Defy the rich man's laws |
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Upon the ground with mortal wound |
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Head keeper Roberts lay |
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He never will rise up until |
| [02:36.63] |
The final judgment day |
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Of all that band who made a stand |
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To set a net or snare |
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The four men brought before the court |
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Were tried for murder there |
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The Judge he said, "For Robert's death |
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Transported you must be |
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To serve a term of forty years |
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In convict slavery" |
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So poacher bold, your tale is told |
| [03:39.06] |
Keep up your gallant heart |
| [03:41.37] |
And think about those poachers bold |
| [03:44.37] |
That night in Rufford Park |