Misc Traditional — Moreton Bay Tab
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:00:41 +1000
From: Kevin Woodgate
Subject: m/misc_traditional/moreton_bay.tab
Moreton Bay Frank McNamara/Australian Folk Song
Transcribed by K Woodgate
Easy melody Version
The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William Clauson
and many other Australian Folk records.
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1 One Sun—day morn—ing as I was walk—ing By Bris—bane wa—ters I Chanced to
Stray
2 'I've been a con—vict at Port Mac—qua—rie At Nor—folk Is—land and Em—U
Plains
3 For three long years I was beastly treated And heavy irons on my leg I wore
4 Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews We were oppressed under Logan's yoke
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1 I heard a con—vict his fate be—wail—ing As on the sun—ny ri—ver bank he lay
2 At cas—tle hill and cur—sed toon—gab—bie At all those sett—le—ments I've
worked in chains
3 My back with floggings was lacerated, And often painted with crimson gore
4 Till a native black lying there in ambush Did deal our tyrant his mortal
stroke
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1 I am a nat—ive of Er—in's is—land Trans—port— ed now from my na—tive shore
2 But of all pla—ces of con—dem—na—tion And pen—al sta—tions of New South
Wales
3 And many a man from downright starvation Lies mouldering now beneath the
clay
4 My fellow prisoners, be exhilarated That all such monsters such a death
may find
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1 They tore me from my a—ged pa—rents And from the maid—en that I do a—dore
2 To Moreton Bay I have found no equal: Excess—ive Ty—rann—ny each day
pre—vails
3 And Captain Logan he had us mangled At the triangles of Moreton Bay
4 And when from bondage we are liberated, Our former sufferings shall fade
from mind