Thornaby Woods

	  		
Intro 
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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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In Thornaby Woods 


Instrumental 
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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
 

Instrumental 
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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 
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In Thornaby Woods 


Outro 
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