Key: A minor
Verse 1
Bm
A
G
A
D
Bm
From the bells
Am
C
Bm
A
In '67, one last time
D
A
And on its fateful passage it set sail
Verse 2
Bm
D
A
And aboard that vessel too did go
C
Bm
A
Some 60 Fenian boys
D
A
And led out amidst the cry
Verse 3
Bm
A
D
"Farewell to all the convict ways
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G
D
To being slaves without
Bm
A
D
Farewell to all the convict ways
G
D
They'll be the last we'll see
A
D
in irons and chains"
Verse 4
D
A
they sped the wild waves o'er
Bm
C
Bm
A
Bringing poetry and news
Bm
D
G
With their spirits, overhead did soar
D
A
A sage and wild goose
Verse 5
A
D
A
coast they'd steer
C
Bm
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Into famed Freemantle Bay
Bm
G
It's reported that all souls on board
Verse 6
Bm
A
D
"Farewell to all the convict ways
A
G
D
To being slaves without
Bm
A
D
Farewell to all the convict ways
G
D
They'll be the last we'll see in
A
D
irons and chains"
Verse 7
D
A
them did escape
C
Bm
A
That barren jailer's land
Verse 8
Bm
D
A
For he knew all men inside must feel
C
Bm
A
That burning to be free
Bm
G
And when any languished in a cage
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A
Not a single one of them could say
Verse 9
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D
"Farewell to all the convict ways
A
G
A
To being slaves without
D
A
the name of slaves
Bm
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D
Farewell to all the convict ways
A
Asus4
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D
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We'll be the last they'll see in irons
Interlude 1
and chains"
Bm
A
D
Asus4
D
A
D
A
Verse 10
C
Bm
A
As John Boyle O'Reilly knew
Bm
G
That no man is free when free alone
A
Bm
G
No man is free when free alone
A
Bm
D
G
That one soul in chains is all in chains
Verse 11
D
G
all en slaved
D
A
And that all mankind is in the few
Bm
A
And when all the life that they have seen
C
Bm
A
And one hundred thousand days
Verse 12
D
G
"What is free?"
A
Bm
When old men must ask us,
D
G
"What are slaves?"
A
Bm
And when women ask us,
D
G
"What are chains?"
A
When
Verse 13
Bm
the wild,
Bm
G
And the golden egg of freedom's lain
G
D
Then and only then
A
Verse 14
Asus4
A
Bm
A
D
"Farewell to all the convict ways
G
D
To being slaves without
Bm
A
D
Farewell to all the convict ways
G
D
A
D
And farewell to life in irons and chains"
Verse 15
G
D
A
D
And farewell to life in irons and chains
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