A
The countryside is dying
A/F#
They're closing village stores
D
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
A E
The government burn them all
Bm
And here's another post office
D E A
With boards across the door
A
Now the rich folks came from london
A/F#
To breathe the cleaner air
D
They listen to The Archers
A E
Buy new barbours, grow their hair
Bm
Then they buy up all the houses
D
So country people born-and-bred
D E A
Can't afford to live there
A
Now the Countryside Alliance
A/F#
We'll call them 'the cunts' for short
D
They promised in defiance
A E
That a battle would be fought
Bm
Then they ignored the real issues
D E A
And just shout about their bloody sport
D A E
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
D A E
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
D A A/F# A#1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
D
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
E A D E A
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me.
A
Now the cunts have come to London
A/F#
To show us all what for:
D
There were only 20 thousand of them
A E
Marching down through Whitehall
A
But they were such a bunch of thugs
A/F#
And the police arrested more
D
Than when 2 million normal people
D E A
Marched against the war
D A E
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
D A E
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
D A A/F# A#1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
D
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
E A D E A
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me.
A#1 Bm D E
Where were you when the miners fought to save their livelihoods?
A#1 Bm D E
You were dressed up in red velvet somewhere deep in the woods
A#1 Bm D E
You loved the fucking poll tax, you propped up Maggie Thatcher
Bm
And you didn't give a fuck about Tony Blair
D E A
'Til he threw your hobby back at ya.
A
The countryside is dying
A/F#
Some say it's already dead
D A E
And the huntsman's got a boner as the dogs rip the fox to shreds
Bm
Then he smears the blood on his daughter's face
D E A
And drags her back to bed.
D A E
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
D A E
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
D A A/F# A#1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
D
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
E A D E A
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me