The Huntsman Comes A-marchin

[G](hammer on the [E] string)
then on the A string slide whilst strumming from 3 to 5 to 7 and back to three.
(play around with it)

[G]The countryside is dying
[G/f#]
They're closing village stores
[C]While shepherds watched their flocks by night
[G]The government burned them a[D]ll
[Am]And here's another post office
With[C] boar[G]ds across the door[D]

[G]The people from the city came
[G/f#]
To breathe the cleaner air
[C]They listen to The Archers
Buy new c[G]oats and grow their h[D]air
[Am]Then they buy up all the houses
So country people born-and-bred
[C]Can't af[G]ford to live[D] there

[G]Now the Countryside Alliance
[G/f#]
We'll call them 'the cunts' for short
[C]They promised in defiance
That a ba[G]ttle would be fo[D]ught
Then i[Am]gnored the real problems
To shout ab[C]out their bl[G]oody sp[D]ort

[C]Call it a betrayal - it l[G]ooks like that to [D]me
[C]Call it bad behaviour and [G]a waste of time a[D]nd money
[C]I've never been in favour [G]of police brutali[D]ty
But when the h[Em]untsman comes a-marchin'
Well g[C]ive h[D]im one [G]for me, officer, giv[C]e him on[D]e fo[G]r me.

[G]Now the cunts have come to London
[G/f#]
To give us all what for:
[C]There were only 20 thousand of them
[G]Marching down through Whit[D]ehall
But th[Am]ey were such a bunch of thugs
[Am]The police arrested more
Than when 2 million normal people
[C]Marched ag[G]ainst the w[D]ar

[C]Call it a betrayal - looks [G]like that to m[D]e
[C]Call it bad behaviour and a [G]waste of time [D]and money
[C]I've never been in favour of [G]police brut[D]ality
But when the h[Em]untsman comes a-marchin'
Well gi[C]ve him on[D]e for m[G]e, officer, gi[C]ve him o[D]ne for m[G]e.

Where were[Em] you when the mi[Am]ners fought to sav[C]e their livel[G]ihoods?
Dressed [Em]up in red velve[Am]t somewhere de[C]ep in the wo[G]ods
You l[Em]oved the fucking [Am]poll tax, you p[C]ropped up Margaret [G]Thatcher
And you d[Em]idn't give a fuc[Am]k about Tony Blair
'Til he t[C]hrew your hobby back at y[G]a.

[G]The countryside is dying
[G/f#]
Some say it's already dead
And the hu[C]ntsman has a boner as the do[G]gs pull it to sh[D]reds
Then he w[Am]ipes the blood on his daughter's face
And d[C]rags her ba[G]ck to b[D]ed.

[C]Call it a betrayal - looks[G] like that to [D]me
[C]Call it bad behaviour and a[G] waste of time [D]and money
[C]And I've never been in favo[G]ur of police br[D]utality
But when the h[Em]untsman comes a-marchin'
Well give hi[C]m on[D]e for m[G]e, officer, gi[C]ve hi[D]m one for[G] me.

END