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Intro
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Verse
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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
Verse
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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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Verse
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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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Verse
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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
Verse
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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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Outro
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