The Royal Lincolnshire & Royal Anglian

Regimental Association

Badge, Royal Lincolnshire Regt

LINCOLN BRANCH

Badge, Royal Anglian Regt

Music

THE LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER

Click here to listen to "The Lincolnshire Poacher", The Regimental March of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, performed by the Band of The Lincoln & Welland Regiment, The Royal Canadian Infantry, Reserve. This sound file has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Major Alan D Woolley of The Lincoln & Welland Regiment.

    THE LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER
  1.  
  2. When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire,
  3. Full well I serv'd my master, for more then seven year,
  4. Till I took up to poaching, as you shall quickly hear.
  5. Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.
  6.  
  7. As me and my companions were setting of a snare,
  8. 'Twas then we spied the game-keeper - for him we did not care.
  9. For we can wrestle and fight, my boys, and jump o'er anywhere.
  10. Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night in the season of the year.
  11.  
  12. As me and my companions were setting four or five,
  13. And taking on 'em up again, we caught a hare alive,
  14. We took the hare alive, my boys, and through the woods did steer.
  15. Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night in the season of the year.
  16.  
  17. I threw him on my shoulder, and then we trudged home,
  18. We took him to a neighbour's house, and sold him for a crown,
  19. We sold him for a crown, my boys, but I did not tell you where.
  20. Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night in the season of the year.
  21.  
  22. Bad luck to every magistrate that lives in Lincolnshire.
  23. Success to every poacher that wants to sell a hare,
  24. Bad luck to every game-keeper that will not sell his deer.
  25. Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night in the season of the year.
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