D#
The countryside is dying
D#/C
They're closing village stores
G#
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
D# A#
The government burn them all
Fm
And here's another post office
G# A# D#
With boards across the door
D#
Now the rich folks came from london
D#/C
To breathe the cleaner air
G#
They listen to The Archers
D# A#
Buy new barbours, grow their hair
Fm
Then they buy up all the houses
G#
So country people born-and-bred
G# A# D#
Can't afford to live there
D#
Now the Countryside Alliance
D#/C
We'll call them 'the cunts' for short
G#
They promised in defiance
D# A#
That a battle would be fought
Fm
Then they ignored the real issues
G# A# D#
And just shout about their bloody sport
G# D# A#
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
G# D# A#
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
G# D# D#/C E1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
G#
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
A# D# G# A# D#
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me.
D#
Now the cunts have come to London
D#/C
To show us all what for:
G#
There were only 20 thousand of them
D# A#
Marching down through Whitehall
D#
But they were such a bunch of thugs
D#/C
And the police arrested more
G#
Than when 2 million normal people
G# A# D#
Marched against the war
G# D# A#
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
G# D# A#
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
G# D# D#/C E1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
G#
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
A# D# G# A# D#
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me.
E1 Fm G# A#
Where were you when the miners fought to save their livelihoods?
E1 Fm G# A#
You were dressed up in red velvet somewhere deep in the woods
E1 Fm G# A#
You loved the fucking poll tax, you propped up Maggie Thatcher
Fm
And you didn't give a fuck about Tony Blair
G# A# D#
'Til he threw your hobby back at ya.
D#
The countryside is dying
D#/C
Some say it's already dead
G# D# A#
And the huntsman's got a boner as the dogs rip the fox to shreds
Fm
Then he smears the blood on his daughter's face
G# A# D#
And drags her back to bed.
G# D# A#
And you can call it a betrayal well it looks like that to me
G# D# A#
And you can call it bad behaviour or a waste of time and money
G# D# D#/C E1
And I've never been in favour of police brutality
G#
But when the huntsman comes a-marchin'
A# D# G# A# D#
You give him one for me, officer, give him one for me