Key: A minor
Verse 1
G#m
F#
E
F#
B
G#m
From the bells
F#m
A
G#m
F#
In '67, one last time
B
F#
And on its fateful passage it set sail
Verse 2
G#m
B
F#
And aboard that vessel too did go
A
G#m
F#
Some 60 Fenian boys
B
F#
And led out amidst the cry
Verse 3
G#m
F#
B
"Farewell to all the convict ways
F#
E
B
To being slaves without
G#m
F#
B
Farewell to all the convict ways
E
B
They'll be the last we'll see
F#
B
in irons and chains"
Verse 4
B
F#
they sped the wild waves o'er
G#m
A
G#m
F#
Bringing poetry and news
G#m
B
E
With their spirits, overhead did soar
B
F#
A sage and wild goose
Verse 5
F#
B
F#
coast they'd steer
A
G#m
F#
Into famed Freemantle Bay
G#m
E
It's reported that all souls on board
Verse 6
G#m
F#
B
"Farewell to all the convict ways
F#
E
B
To being slaves without
G#m
F#
B
Farewell to all the convict ways
E
B
They'll be the last we'll see in
F#
B
irons and chains"
Verse 7
B
F#
them did escape
A
G#m
F#
That barren jail er's land
Verse 8
G#m
B
F#
For he knew all men inside must feel
A
G#m
F#
That burning to be free
G#m
E
And when any languished in a cage
B
F#
Not a single one of them could say
Verse 9
G#m
F#
B
"Farewell to all the convict ways
F#
E
F#
To being slaves without
B
F#
the name of slaves
G#m
F#
B
Farewell to all the convict ways
F#
F#sus4
F#
B
F#
We'll be the last they'll see in irons
Interlude 1
and chains"
G#m
F#
B
F#sus4
B
F#
B
F#
Verse 10
A
G#m
F#
As John Boyle O'Reilly knew
G#m
E
That no man is free when free alone
F#
G#m
E
No man is free when free alone
F#
G#m
B
E
That one soul in chains is all in chains
Verse 11
B
E
all en slaved
B
F#
And that all mankind is in the few
G#m
F#
And when all the life that they have seen
A
G#m
F#
And one hundred thou sand days
Verse 12
B
E
"What is free?"
F#
G#m
When old men must ask us,
B
E
"What are slaves?"
F#
G#m
And when women ask us,
B
E
"What are chains?"
F#
When
Verse 13
G#m
the wild,
G#m
E
And the golden egg of freedom's lain
E
B
Then and only then
F#
Verse 14
F#sus4
F#
G#m
F#
B
"Farewell to all the convict ways
E
B
To being slaves without
G#m
F#
B
Farewell to all the convict ways
E
B
F#
B
And farewell to life in irons and chains"
Verse 15
E
B
F#
B
And farewell to life in irons and chains
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