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Ballad Of Moreton Bay chords by
The Brothers Four
The Brothers Four

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Verse 1
C
Am
C
G
C

One Sunday
Am

morning as I went walking
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
Am

I am a native Arous Island
C
Am

And vanished now from

my native shore
C
Am

They tore me from my aged parents
C

And from the maiden who

I adore
Am
C
G
Verse 2
C

Am

I've been a prisoner at Port McQuerry
C
Am

At Norfolk Island and Eve Plains
C
Am

At Castle Hill and at Curston Cavy
C
G

At all those settlements
C

I've worked in chains
Am

But of all places of condemnation
C
Am

And penal stations of New South Wales
C
Am

To Moreton Bay I have found no equal
C

Excessive tyranny each day

prevails
Am
C
G
Verse 3
C

Am

For three long years I was

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
C

would offer more

And many a man from
Am

down right starvation
C
Am

Lies moldering underneath the clay
C
Am

And Captain Logan he had us tortured
C

At the billeries down at

Moreton Bay
Am
C
G
Verse 4
C

Am

Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews
C

We were oppressed under
Am

Lo gan's rule
C
Am

Until the native black and in ambush
C
G
C

Did give our tyrant is mortal stroke?
Am

My fellow prisoners be exhilarated
C
Am

That all such tyrants such death may find
C
Am

And when from bundage we're liberated
C

Our former suffering shall from

mind
Am
C
G
Verse 5
C

Am

One Sunday morning as I went walking
C
Am

By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
C
Am

I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing
C

As on a sunny river bank he lay.

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