The Gamekeeper Chords

[Verse 1]
G	  C   		G
In Devonshire I was a keeper,
	  Em C	       G
Half my life I lived outdoors.
	 D	 	     Em
Using skills my father taught me,
		   Am	     D       Am  D   G
On land that edged the open moors.
 
[Verse 2]
G	      C		    G
I'd cut the snares of every poacher,
	 Em	 C	      G
Rising hours be-fore the sun.
	   D                Em
I guarded nests and planted cover,
		    Am           D    Am  D  G
And drove the birds towards the guns.
 
[Verse 3]
G	      C		           G
I fought in France like half this county,
	        Em	  C	   G
With all the skills I brought from home.
	 D		  Em
I set traps and laid the wire,
               Am             D     Am  D  G
The earth grew red as Devon's own.
 
[Verse 4]
G	     C		 G
July the first, nineteen sixteen,
         Em	   C	         G
We early rose, passed round the rum.
	      D	               Em
The whistles blew and we broke cover,
	      Am               D
And walked in line towards the guns.
	      Am               D
We walked in line towards the guns.
 
[Verse 5]
G	          C	     G
Back on the land, I hire the beaters,
		  Em	 C          G
And when the glor-ious twelfth has come.
	       D	     Em
We stand in line, we wait in sil-ence,
		   Am          D
And walk once more towards the guns.
 
[Refrain]
           Am                 D
We walk to-wards the waiting guns.
           Am                 D
We walk to-wards the waiting guns.
           Am                 D      G
We walk to-wards the waiting guns.
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