Ballad Of Moreton Bay chords by
The Brothers Four

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Key: C major•

Verse 1

C

C

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Am

Am

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C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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One Sunday

Am

Am

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morning as I went walking

C

C

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Am

Am

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By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray

C

C

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Am

Am

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I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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As on a sunny river bank he lay

Am

Am

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I am a native Arous Island

C

C

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Am

Am

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And vanished now from

my native shore

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C

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Am

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They tore me from my aged parents

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C

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And from the maiden who

I adore

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C

C

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G

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Verse 2

C

C

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Am

Am

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I've been a prisoner at Port McQuerry

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C

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Am

Am

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At Norfolk Island and Eve Plains

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C

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At Castle Hill and at Curston Cavy

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C

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G

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At all those settle ments

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C

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I've worked in chains

Am

Am

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But of all places of condemnation

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C

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Am

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And penal stations of New South Wales

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C

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Am

Am

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To Moreton Bay I have found no equal

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C

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Ex cessive tyranny each day

prevails

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Am

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C

C

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G

G

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Verse 3

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C

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Am

Am

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For three long years I was

cruely treated

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C

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Heavy irons on my legs I wore

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C

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My back with flogging is lacerated

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C

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G

G

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When begged to stop they

C

C

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would offer more

And many a man from

Am

Am

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down right starvation

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C

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Lies moldering under neath the clay

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C

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Am

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And Captain Logan he had us tortured

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C

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At the billeries down at

Moreton Bay

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C

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G

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Verse 4

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Am

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Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews

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We were oppressed under

Am

Am

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Lo gan's rule

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C

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Until the native black and in ambush

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C

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G

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C

C

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Did give our tyr ant is mortal stroke?

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Am

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My fellow prisoners be ex hilarated

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C

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Am

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That all such tyrants such death may find

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Am

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And when from bundage we're liberated

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C

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Our former suffering shall from

mind

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C

C

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G

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Verse 5

C

C

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Am

Am

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One Sunday morning as I went walking

C

C

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Am

Am

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By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray

C

C

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Am

Am

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I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing

C

C

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As on a sunny river bank he lay.

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsC Am G

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