Moreton Bay chords by John Denver
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Verse 1
(G major) (D major) (G major) (A major) (D major)
One Sunday
morning as I was (G major) walking
By (D major) Brisbane Waters I chance to (E minor) stray
(A major) I (D major) heard a convict his fate (G major) be wailing
As (D major) on the sunny (A major) ri verb (D major) ank he lay
I am a nat (G major) ive of
Verse 2
Erin, Ireland
But (D major) banished now from my native (E minor) shore
(D major) They stole me from my inde (G major) pendence
And (D major) from the maiden (A major) whom I
(D major) do adore
I've been a prisoner at (G major) Port Macquarie
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Verse 3
At Norfolk (D major) Island and (E minor) Emu Plain (A major) s
(D major) At Castle Hill and cursed (G major)
(D major) Toongabbie
At all these settlements
(A major) I've been en (D major) chained
But of all places (G major) of condemnation And
Verse 4
(D major)
penal stations in New (E minor) South Wales
(A major) To (D major) Moreton Bay I have found (G major) no equal
Excess (D major) ive tyranny each
day prevails
Verse 5
For three long years I was beastly (G major) treated
And (D major) heavy irons on my (E minor) legs I wore
(A major) My back (D major) from flogging was la (G major) cerated
And (D major) of t times covered with my
(A major) crimson (D major) gore
And many a man from (G major) downright starvation
Verse 6
Lies (D major) mouldering now beneath the (E minor) clay
(A major) And (D major) Captain Logan he had
(G major) us mangled
On the tri (D major) angles of More (A major) ton (D major) Bay
Verse 7
Like the (D major) Egyptians and an (G major) cient Hebrews
We (D major) were oppressed under Logan's (E minor) yoke
(A major) 'Til a (D major) native black lying bare in (G major) ambush
Did (D major) deal our tyrant with his mortal
Verse 8
stroke
(D major) My fellow prisoners be (G major) ex hilarated
Let (D major) all such monsters like death (E minor) shall find
(A major) And (D major) when from bondage
we're extric (G major) ated
Our (D major) former suffering
will fade from mind
One Sunday morning as I (G major) was walking By
Verse 9
(D major)
Brisbane Waters I chance to (E minor) stray
(A major) I (D major) heard a convict his fate be (G major) wailing
As (D major) on the sunny (A major) riverb (D major) ank (A major) (D major) he lay
Moreton Bay
John Denver
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