Gm _ _ _ _
Bb _ _ _ _ .
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Gm _ _ _ _ .
Bb _ _ _ _
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Gm _ _ _ _
Dm _ _ _ _ .
Gm _ _ In 1803 we
Bb sailed out to sea,
F Out
C from the sweet
Gm town of Derry.
_ .
For Australia bound, if
Bb we didn't all drown,
F The
C marks of our feathers
Gm we carried.
_ .
C In our rusty iron
Bb chains we cried for our ways,
C Our good women we
Dm left in sorrow.
_ .
Gm As the main sails unfurled, the
Bb curses we hurled,
F On the English
C and Tots of
Gm tomorrow.
_ _ .
_ _ _ At the mouth of the foil
Bb bid farewell to the soil,
F As down
C below decks we
Gm were laying.
_ Old Doherty screamed,
Bb woken out of a dream,
F By a vision
C of old
Gm Robert's dead.
_ _
C The sun burnt cruel
Bb as witched of the gruel,
C Donna Connor was down with
Dm her fee.
_ _
Gm Sixty rebels today,
Bb bound for Bodney Bay,
F How many
C will reach
Gm their receipt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Bb _ _ _ _
F _ _ Oh,
Gm I wish
F I was back
Gm home in Derry.
_ _ .
Bb _ Oh, _
F _ _ _ .
Gm I wish
F I was back
Gm home in Derry.
_ _ .
_ _ _ I cursed them to hell
Bb as our bow fought the swell,
F Our ship danced
C like a moth
Gm in the fires.
White horses rode high
Bb as the devil passed by,
C Taking souls to hades
Gm by twilight.
_
C Five weeks out to sea,
Bb we were now forty-three,
C We buried our comrades
Dm each morning.
_ _
Gm In our own slime
Bb we were lost in the time, _
F _
C Endless night without
Gm dawn.
_ _ _ _ _
Bb _ .
_ _ _ _
F _ Oh,
Gm I wish I
F was back home
Gm in Derry.
_ _ .
Bb Oh, _ _
F _ _ _ .
Gm I wish I
F was back home
Gm in Derry.
_ .
_ _ _ _ Van Diemen's
Bb land is a hell for a man,
F To end all
C his whole
Gm life in slavery.
_ But the climate is
Bb raw, and the gun makes the law,
F Neither wind
C nor rain care
Gm for me.
_ _
C Twenty years have gone by,
Bb I've ended my bond,
C My comrades go swat
Dm behind me.
_
Gm A rebel like him,
Bb I'm still the same,
F Under cold
C winds of night you
Gm will find me.
_ _ _ _ _ .
Bb _ _ _ _
F Oh, I
Gm wish
F I was back
Gm home in Derry.
_ _ .
Bb _ Oh, _
F _ _ _ .
Gm I wish I was
F back
Gm home in Derry.
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