Rufford Park Poachers chords by The Longest Johns

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: E

🎸 Verse 1:

   Gm     Dm       F      C
A buck or doe, believe it so
  G             Gm
A pheasant or a hare
            Dm        C     G
Were set on earth for every one

Quite equally to share



🎸 Chorus:

   Gm      Dm       F    C
So poacher bold, as I unfold
     G       Gm
Keep up your gallant heart
            Dm        C        G
And think about those poachers bold
              Gm
That night in Rufford Park



🎸 Verse 2:

     Gm       Dm    F       C
They say that forty gallant poachers
G                Gm
They were in distress
             Dm     C      G
They'd often been attackéd when

Their number it was less



🎸 Chorus:

   Gm      Dm       F    C
So poacher bold, as I unfold
     G       Gm
Keep up your gallant heart
            Dm        C        G
And think about those poachers bold
              Gm
That night in Rufford Park



🎸 Verse 3:

  Gm      Dm        F       C
Among the gorse, to settle scores
      G               Gm
These forty gathered stones
          Dm        C          G
To make a fight for poor men's rights

And break the keepers' bones



🎸 Chorus:

   Gm      Dm       F    C
So poacher bold, as I unfold
     G       Gm
Keep up your gallant heart
            Dm        C        G
And think about those poachers bold
              Gm
That night in Rufford Park



🎸 Verse 4:

    Gm      Dm        F       C
The keepers went with flails against
      G                  Gm
Those poachers and their cause
          Dm      C         G
So no man there again would dare

Defy the rich man's laws



🎸 Chorus:

   Gm      Dm       F    C
So poacher bold, as I unfold
     G       Gm
Keep up your gallant heart
            Dm        C        G
And think about those poachers bold
              Gm
That night in Rufford Park



🎸 Verse 5:

    Gm     Dm          F      C
All on the ground with mortal wound
     G      Gm
Head-keeper Roberts lay
         Dm        C     G
He never will rise up until

The final Judgment Day



🎸 Verse 6:

   Gm       Dm       F      C
Of all that band who made a stand
   G            Gm
To set a net or snare
             Dm         C       G
The four men brought before the court

Were tried for murder there



🎸 Chorus:

   Gm      Dm       F    C
So poacher bold, as I unfold
     G       Gm
Keep up your gallant heart
            Dm        C        G
And think about those poachers bold
              Gm
That night in Rufford Park



🎸 Verse 7:

     Gm       Dm        F         C
The judge he said, "For Roberts' death
    G       Gm
Transported you must be
           Dm      C     G
To serve a term of forty years

In convict slavery."



🎸 Chorus:

   Gm      Dm       F    C
So poacher bold, as I unfold
     G       Gm
Keep up your gallant heart
            Dm        C        G
And think about those poachers bold
              Gm
That night in Rufford Park



🎸 Verse 8:

  Gm      Dm       F      C
A buck or doe, believe it so
  G             Gm
A pheasant or a hare
            Dm        C    G
Were set on earth for everyone

Quite equally to share



🎸 Outro:

   Gm      Dm         F       C
So poacher bold, your tale is told
     G       Gm
Keep up your gallant heart
            Dm        C        G
And think about those poachers bold
              Gm
That night in Rufford Park