The Bad Squire
Chumbawamba

The merry brown hares came a-leaping
Over the crest of the hill
Where the clover and corn lay a-sleeping
Under the moonlight so still
Leaping so late and so early
'Till under their bite and their tread
The swedes and the wheat and the barley
Lay cankered and trampled and dead

A poacher's poor widow sat sighing
On the side of the moss-patterned bank
Where under the gloom of the fir-woods
One acre of ground laying rank
She watched over barely grown clover
Where rabbit or hare never ran
For the ground that it all covered over
Hid the blood of a good murdered man

She thought of the shaded plantation
And the hares and her husband's own blood
And the voice of her own indignation
Rose up to the throne of her God
There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, Squire
There's blood on your pointer's cold feet
There's blood on the game that you sell Squire
And there's blood on the game that you eat

You have sold out the labouring man, Squire
Both body and soul for to shame
To pay for your seat in the House, Squire
And to pay for the feed of your game
You made him a poacher yourself, Squire
When you'd give not the work nor the meat
And your barley-fed hares robbed the garden
At our starving poor little one's feet

When packed into one tiny chamber
Man, mother and little ones lay
While the rain pattered in on our bride bed
And the walls barely held out the day
When we lay in the heat of the fever
On the mud and the clay of the floor
'Till you parted us all for three months, Squire
And we knocked at the working house door

So to kennels and liveried varlets
Where you starved your own daughter of bread
And worn out with liquor and harlots
See your heirs at your feet lying dead
When you follow them into your heaven
And your soul rots asleep in the grave
Then Squire, you will not be forgiven
By the free men you took as your slaves


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  Add Me   After Shelley   Ah-men   All In Vain   All Mixed Up   Always Tell The Voter What The Voter Wants To Hear   Amnesia [Radio Mix]   Amnesia [Single Mix]   And in a Nutshell   Buy Nothing Day   By and By   Cartrouble   Chartist Anthem   Coca-Colanisation   Come On Baby (Let's Do The Revolution)   Dance, Idiot, Dance   Drip Drip Drip   El Fusilado   Everything You Know Is Wrong   Fade Away (I Don't Want To)   Farewell to the Crown [*]   Give the Anarchist A Cigarette   Hammer, Stirrup & Anvil   Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire   Her Majesty   Hey Hey We're The Junkies   Home With Me   Hull or Hell   I Wish That They'd Sack Me   I'm Coming Out   I'm Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun   I'm With Stupid   Idris Strike Song   If It Is to Be, It Is up to Me   Introduction   Jesus In Vegas   Knickers   Ladies For Compassionate Lynching   Laughter in a Time of War   Learning To Love   Lie Lie Lie Lie   Mary, Mary   Missed   Morality Play in Three Acts   Moses With A Gun   Mr. Heseltine Meets His Public   New York Mining Disaster 1941   New York Song   Nothing Knocks Me Over   One Way or the Other   Pickle   Poverty Knock   Puccini Said   Ratatatay   Rebel Code   Rubens Has Been Shot!   Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart   Salt Fare, North Sea   Sewing up Crap   Shake Baby Shake   She's Got All The Friends   Shhh   Singing Out The Days   Slap!   Smart Bomb   Smashing Of The Van   Smith & Taylor   Social Dogma   Song for Len Shackleton   Song Of The Times   Stitch That   That Same So-So Tune   That's How Grateful We Are   The Cutty Wren   The Day the Nazi Died   The Day the Nazi Died [Live]   The Diggers Song   The Good Ship Lifestyle   The Health & Happiness Show   The Health And Happiness Show   The Land Of Do What You're Told   The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of...   The Song Collector   The Triumph of General Ludd   The Wasteland   The Wizard of Menlo Park   The World Turned Upside Down   Three Years Later   Today's Sermon   Torturing James Hetfield   Tubthumping [*]   Tubthumping [English Version]   Tubthumping [Original Mix]   Tubthumping [Single Mix]   Ulrike   Underground   Unpindownable   Wagner At The Opera   Walking Into Battle With The Lord   When Alexander Met Emma   When An Old Man Dies   When Fine Society Sits Down to Dine   Without Reason or Rhyme   Word Bomber   Words Can Save Us   WWW Dot   You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932)

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