Chords for NED KELLY@ MORETON BAY#

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One Sunday _ morning [Bm] as [G] I went _ walking by _ [D] Brisbane's waters I [G] chanced astray _
I heard [D] a prisoner, [Bm] his [G] fate be willing, is on [D] the sunny _
_ [A] riverbank [D] he lay _
[A] _ I am a native of [Bm] Heron's Island, _ transported [D] now from [G] my native [Em] _
shore
They told [D] me from my [Bm] _ [G] aged _ parents and from [D] the maiden [A] whom [D] I adore _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I've been a prisoner [G] at Port _ Macquarie, at [D] Norfolk Island and [G] Emu _ Plains
At [D] Castle Hill [Bm] and Cursed [G] Toon Gabby, at [D] all those settlements I've worked in chains
But of all places [G] I've [Bm] found _ damnation in [D] _ _
Penalstations
[G] Of New [Em] South Wales, of [D] Moreton Bay [Bm] I have [G] found no equal
_ _ [D] Excessive tyranny each day _ _ prevails _ _ _
_ _ For three long years [Bm] I was [G] beastly _ treated and [D] heavy irons on my [A] legs [G] I wore
My [D] back from _ flogging was _ [G] _
lacerated and often [D] _
stained [B] with my [D] Kimson gold
And many a man from [C#] downright _
[Bm] starvation lies [D] _
bouldering _ [Bm] underneath the clay
_ And Captain _ Logan [Bm] he [G] had us _ mangled [D] at the _
_ [B] Triangles at [D] Moreton Bay
_ Like the _ Egyptians and [G] ancient Hebrews we [D] were oppressed under _ [G] Logan's yoke
Till a [D] native black [G] lion there in Ambroise did give [D] our client his mortal _ stroke
My fellow prisoners [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _
exhilarated that all [D] such _ monsters [G] a death shall [Em] _
find
And [D] when from _ [G] bondage we're _ _ liberated half [D] of our _ suffering shall fade from mind
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