The Gamekeeper chords by Show Of Hands

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

This is my interpretation. It might not be 100% accurate, but I think it's close. Feel free to send amends.


Verse 1:
CG
In Devonshire I was a keeper,
CG
Half my life I lived outdoors.
D Em
Using skills my father taught me,
CG
On land that edged the open moors.

Verse 2:
CG
I'd cut the snares of every poacher,
CG
Rising hours before the sun.
DEm
I set traps and planted cover,
CG
And drove the birds towards the guns.

Verse 3:
CG
I fought in France like half this county,
CG
With all the skills I brought from home.
DEm
I set traps and laid the wires,
CG
Til the earth grew red as Devon's own.

Verse 4:
CG
July the first, nineteen sixteen,
CG
We early rose, passed round the rum.
DEm
The whistles blew and we broke cover,
CG
And walked in line towards the guns.
CG
We walked in line towards the guns.

Verse 5:
CG
Back on the land, I hire the beaters,
CG
And when the glorious twelfth has come.
DEm
We stand in line, we wait in silence,
CG
And walk once more towards the guns.

Refrain:
        C                   G
We walk towards the waiting guns.
        C                   G
We walk towards the waiting guns.
        C                   G
We walk towards the waiting guns.