Rufford Park Poachers chords by The Longest Johns

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: E MajorE

🎸 Verse 1:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF   C majorC
A augmentedA buck or doe, believe it so
 G+G       G minorGm
A augmentedA pheasant or a hare
      DmDm    C majorC   G+G
Were set on earth for every one

Quite equally to share


🎸 Chorus:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF  C majorC
So poacher bold, as I unfold
   G+G    G minorGm
Keep up your gallant heart
      DmDm    C majorC    G+G
And think about those poachers bold
       G minorGm
That night in Rufford Park

🎸 Verse 2:

   G minorGm    DmDm  FF    C majorC
They say that forty gallant poachers
G+G        G minorGm
They were in distress
       DmDm   C majorC   G+G
They'd often been attackéd when

Their number it was less


🎸 Chorus:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF  C majorC
So poacher bold, as I unfold
   G+G    G minorGm
Keep up your gallant heart
      DmDm    C majorC    G+G
And think about those poachers bold
       G minorGm
That night in Rufford Park

🎸 Verse 3:

 G minorGm   DmDm    FF    C majorC
Among the gorse, to settle scores
   G+G        G minorGm
These forty gathered stones
     DmDm    C majorC     G+G
To make a fight for poor men's rights

And break the keepers' bones


🎸 Chorus:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF  C majorC
So poacher bold, as I unfold
   G+G    G minorGm
Keep up your gallant heart
      DmDm    C majorC    G+G
And think about those poachers bold
       G minorGm
That night in Rufford Park


🎸 Verse 4:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF    C majorC
The keepers went with flails against
   G+G         G minorGm
Those poachers and their cause
     DmDm   C majorC     G+G
So no man there again would dare

Defy the rich man's laws


🎸 Chorus:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF  C majorC
So poacher bold, as I unfold
   G+G    G minorGm
Keep up your gallant heart
      DmDm    C majorC    G+G
And think about those poachers bold
       G minorGm
That night in Rufford Park


🎸 Verse 5:

  G minorGm   DmDm     FF   C majorC
All on the ground with mortal wound
   G+G   G minorGm
Head-keeper Roberts lay
     DmDm    C majorC   G+G
He never will rise up until

The final Judgment Day


🎸 Verse 6:

  G minorGm    DmDm    FF   C majorC
Of all that band who made a stand
  G+G      G minorGm
To set a net or snare
       DmDm     C majorC    G+G
The four men brought before the court

Were tried for murder there


🎸 Chorus:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF  C majorC
So poacher bold, as I unfold
   G+G    G minorGm
Keep up your gallant heart
      DmDm    C majorC    G+G
And think about those poachers bold
       G minorGm
That night in Rufford Park


🎸 Verse 7:

   G minorGm    DmDm    FF     C majorC
The judge he said, "For Roberts' death
  G+G    G minorGm
Transported you must be
      DmDm   C majorC   G+G
To serve a term of forty years

In convict slavery."


🎸 Chorus:

  G minorGm   DmDm    FF  C majorC
So poacher bold, as I unfold
   G+G    G minorGm
Keep up your gallant heart
      DmDm    C majorC    G+G
And think about those poachers bold
       G minorGm
That night in Rufford Park


🎸 Verse 8:

 G minorGm   DmDm    FF   C majorC
A augmentedA buck or doe, believe it so
 G+G       G minorGm
A augmentedA pheasant or a hare
      DmDm    C majorC  G+G
Were set on earth for everyone

Quite equally to share


🎸 Outro:

  G minorGm   DmDm     FF    C majorC
So poacher bold, your tale is told
   G+G    G minorGm
Keep up your gallant heart
      DmDm    C majorC    G+G
And think about those poachers bold
       G minorGm
That night in Rufford Park