E
The countryside is dying
E/C#
They're closing village stores
A
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
E B
The government burn them all
F#m
And here's another post office
A B E
With boards across the door
E
Now the rich folks came from london
E/C#
To breathe the cleaner air
A
They listen to The Archers
E B
Buy new barbours, grow their hair
F#m
Then they buy up all the houses
A
So country people born-and-bred
A B E
Can't afford to live there
E
Now the Countryside Alliance
E/C#
We'll call them 'the cunts' for short
A
They promised in defiance
E B
That a battle would be fought
F#m
Then they ignored the real issues
A B E
And just shout about their bloody sport
A E B
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
A E B
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
A E E/C# F1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
A
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
B E A B E
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me.
E
Now the cunts have come to London
E/C#
To show us all what for:
A
There were only 20 thousand of them
E B
Marching down through Whitehall
E
But they were such a bunch of thugs
E/C#
And the police arrested more
A
Than when 2 million normal people
A B E
Marched against the war
A E B
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
A E B
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
A E E/C# F1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
A
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
B E A B E
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me.
F1 F#m A B
Where were you when the miners fought to save their livelihoods?
F1 F#m A B
You were dressed up in red velvet somewhere deep in the woods
F1 F#m A B
You loved the fucking poll tax, you propped up Maggie Thatcher
F#m
And you didn't give a fuck about Tony Blair
A B E
'Til he threw your hobby back at ya.
E
The countryside is dying
E/C#
Some say it's already dead
A E B
And the huntsman's got a boner as the dogs rip the fox to shreds
F#m
Then he smears the blood on his daughter's face
A B E
And drags her back to bed.
A E B
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
A E B
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
A E E/C# F1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
A
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
B E A B E
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me