Nic Jones - Rufford Park Poachers lyrics

A buck or doe believe it so, A pheasant or a hare Was sent on earth for everyone Quite equal for to share Poacher bold as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park They say the forty gallant poachers They were in a mess They'd often been attacked When the number it was less. So poacher bold as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park Among the gorse to settle scores The forty gathered stones They can fight for a poor man's rights To break the keepers' bones Poacher bold as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park And the keepers they went with flails Against the poachers and their cause No man there again would dare Defy the rich man's laws Poacher bold as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park The keepers they began the fray With stones and with the flails When the poachers started Oh they quickly turned their tails Poacher bold as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park Upon the ground with a mortal wound The head keeper Roberts lay He never will rise up until The final judgement day Poacher bold as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park Of all that band that made a stand To set a net or snare Four men brought before the court Were tried for murder there Poacher bold as I unfold Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park The judge he said For Roberts d**h Transported you must be To serve a term of fourteen years Of convict slavery Poacher bold my tale is told Keep up your gallant heart Think about those poachers bold That night in Rufford Park