Frank Turner - The Huntsman Comes A-marchin

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G
the countryside is dying
G/F#
they’re closing village stores
C
while shepherds watched their flocks by night
G D
the government burn them all
Am
and here’s another post office
C D G
with boards across the door

G
now the rich folks came from london
G/F#
to breathe the cleaner air
C
they listen to the archers
G D
buy new barbours , grow their hair
Am
then they buy up all the houses

so country people born – and – bred
C D G
can’t afford to live there

G
now the countryside alliance
G/F#
we’ll call them ’the cunts’ for short
C
they promised in defiance
G D
that a battle would be fought
Am
then they ignored the real issues
C D G
and just shout about their bloody sport

C G D
and you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
C G D
and you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
C G D
and i’ve never been in favour of police brutality
Em
but when the huntsman comes A – marchin’
C D G C D G
you give him one for me , officer , give him one for me .

G
now the cunts have come to london
G/F#
to show us all what for :
C
there were only 20 thousand of them
G D
marching down through whitehall
Am
but they were such a bunch of thugs
Am
and the police arrested more
than when 2 million normal people
C D G
marched against the war

C G D
and you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
C G D
and you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
C G D
and i’ve never been in favour of police brutality
Em
but when the huntsman comes A – marchin’
C D G C D G
you give him one for me , officer , give him one for me .

Em Am C G
where were you when the miners fought to save their livelihoods?
Em Am C G
you were dressed up in red velvet somewhere deep in the woods
Em Am C G
you loved the fxxking poll tax , you propped up maggie thatcher
Em Am
and you didn’t give a fxxk about tony blair
C G
’til he threw your hobby back at ya .

G
the countryside is dying
G/F#
some say it’s already dead
C G D
and the huntsman’s got a boner as the dogs rip the fox to shreds
Am
then he smears the blood on his daughter’s face
C D G
and drags her back to bed .

C G D
and you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
C G D
and you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
C G D
and i’ve never been in favour of police brutality
Em
but when the huntsman comes A – marchin’
C D G C D G
you give him one for me , officer , give him one for me .