And helped himself plentiful-ly.

Just then there chanced to be cocking his eye

Uncle Sam’s head-keeper, J. B.,

Who caught the bold Fowler poaching so sly,

All under the greenwood tree, tree, tree,

All under the greenwood tree.

“Oh, what are you doing?” the head-keeper cried,

“You son of a gun!” cried he;

“I’ll have you taken, and bound, and tied,

By the laws of this great countree, ree, ree,