(C) My Daddy fed us (F) all his way (C)
A woodsman was (F) he

And yes he (C) lived outside the (F) law
But (G) what's a man to be?
(C) Wife and kids had (F) to be fed

So a (C) poacher he (F) became
At (C) break of dawn or (G) dark of night
He (F) caught the fish and (C) game....Build on the (C)


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Catch the (F) quail and skin the (C) hare

Land the (G) salmon oh (Am) slow (C)
Snare the (F) Jacks with heads down (C) low
And take your (F) catch and (G) go

(F) Watch for opportune-(C) -ities to (F) strike
the killer (Am) blow .....hold the chord
(F) Harvest from the (C) summer flow

(F) And watch the (G) family (C) grow

(C) When I was 8 or (F) 9 years old (C)

(C) He took me on his (F) run
(C) "If any fate should (F) befall me
Then (G) You're the man my son"

(C) Hold your long bow (F) sure and still
(C) Shoot your arrow (F) true
Say a (C) prayer for the (G) noble deer

(F) It's either him or (C) you

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(C) The king's men came, they (F) took my Pa'

(C) A poachers death for (F) him
The (C) Forest was a lonely (F) place
(G) A lonely place for me

(C) For Daddy it was (F) natural
(C) To hunt and make the (F) Kill
But (C) I took life with tear in (G) eye

(F) For bellies I must fill

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(C) Years have flown and Mother's (F) gone
(C) My siblings flown the (F) nest

(C) I never took myself a (F) wife
And (G) now it's time to rest
(C) The monastery 's (F) calling me

Yea... (C)..and the Holy (F) book
(C) Perhaps Now I can (G) make amends
(F) For all the lives I (C) took