Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
C#
C#sus4
F#
C#
F#
It was Yanky the
B
C#
Squire as I've heard them tell
He went out a- hunting all
D#m
G#m
C#
on one fine day
He went out a- hunting but
F#
C#
nothing he found
F#
C#
F#
C#
But a poor murdered woman laid
on the cold ground
F#
Verse 2
C#
B
C#
our dogs they throwed off
And off to the Common and
nothing they found
But a poor murdered woman
Verse 3
laid on the cold ground
C#
They whipped their dogs off
D#m
B
C#
and they kept them away
For I do think it is proper that she
F#
C#
should have fair play
F#
B
But a poor murdered woman laid on
G#m
C#
the cold ground
F#
C#
B
C#
Verse 4
They mounted their horses
B
C#
and they rode off the ground
They rode to the village and
F#
C#
alarmed it all around
"It is late in the evening,
F#
C#
I am sorry to say
C#
F#
C#
until the next day."
Verse 5
C#
D#m
The next Sunday morning
B
C#
about eight o'clock
Some hundreds of people to the
F#
C#
spot they did flock
For to see that poor creature it would
make your hearts bleed
F#
D#m
Some cold- hearted vi olence
B
G#m
C#
F#
came into their heads
Verse 6
C#
D#m
B
She was took off the Com mon
And the man that has kept it
F#
B
C#
his name is John Sims
The Coroner was sent for
and the jury they joined
F#
C#
And soon they concluded and
F#
C#
B
C#
they settled their mind
Verse 7
F#
C#
D#m
A coffin was brought and
B
C#
in it she was laid
And took to the churchyard
F#
C#
in fair Leatherhead
No father, no mother,
nor no friend at all
Came to see the poor creature
F#
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