Steeleye Span – Thornaby Woods (Guitar)

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In Thornaby Woods in Nottinghamshire

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Thornaby Woods in Nottinghamshire

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Three game-keepers' houses stood three-square

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About a mile from each other they were

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Their orders they were to look out for the deer

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Long, long the day

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Me and the dogs went out one night

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The moon and stars were shining bright

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O'er hedges, ditches, fields and stiles

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With my three dogs running close by me heels

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To catch a fat buck down in Thornaby fields

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Long, long the day

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That very first night, I had bad luck

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For one of me very best dogs got shot

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He came to me all bloody and lame

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Right sorry was I for to see the same

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And not being able to follow the game

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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In Thornaby Woods

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In Thornaby Woods

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In Thornaby Woods

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I looked at his wounds and found them slight

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'Twas done by some keeper out of spite

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I'll take a right stick all in me hand

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And I'll search the woods till I find that man

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I'll tan his old hide, right well, if I can

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Long, long the day

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Then I went home and went to bed

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And Limping Jack went out in me stead

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He searched the woods around at length

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'Til he found a buck rough lying dead the ground

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'Twas my little dog that gave him his death wound

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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In Thornaby Woods

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In Thornaby Woods

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In Thornaby Woods

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In Thornaby Woods

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He got a butcher to skin the game

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And likewise another to sell the same

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The very first joint that he offered for sale

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It was to an old woman who sold bad ale

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She had us all up in Nottingham gaol

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Long, long the day

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The Nottingham assizes are over and past

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And we three chaps got free at last

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The bucks and does shall never roam free

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For a poacher's life is the life for me

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A poacher I will always be

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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Long, long the day

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In Thornaby Woods

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In Thornaby Woods

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In Thornaby Woods