Key: C major
Verse 1
C
Am
C
G
C
One Sunday
C
Am
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
C
Am
I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing
C
G
C
As on a sunny river bank he lay
C
Am
And vanished now from
my native shore
C
Am
They tore me from my aged parents
I adore
Am
C
G
Verse 2
C
C
Am
At Norfolk Island and Eve Plains
C
Am
At Castle Hill and at Curston Cavy
C
G
At all those settlements
C
Am
And penal stations of New South Wales
C
Am
To Moreton Bay I have found no equal
prevails
Am
C
G
Verse 3
C
cruely treated
C
Am
Heavy irons on my legs I wore
C
Am
My back with flogging is lacerated
C
G
When begged to stop they
And many a man from
C
Am
Lies moldering underneath the clay
C
Am
And Captain Logan he had us tortured
Moreton Bay
Am
C
G
Verse 4
C
C
Am
Until the native black and in ambush
C
G
C
Did give our tyrant is mortal stroke?
C
Am
That all such tyrants such death may find
C
Am
And when from bundage we're liberated
mind
Am
C
G
Verse 5
C
C
Am
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
C
Am
I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing
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