Moreton Bay chords by The Hawking Brothers

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Verse 1
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One Sunday morning as I  went walking
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By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
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I heard a prisoner, his fate bewailing
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As on the sunny riverbank he lay
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I am a native of Erin's Island
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and banished now from my
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native shore
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They told me from my ancient parents
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and from the maiden whom I do adore
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I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie,
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At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains,
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At Castle Hill and at Curse of Toon Gabby,
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And all those settlements
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I've worked in chains,
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But of all the places of condemnation,
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And penal stations of New
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South Wales,
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To Morton Bay I have found no equal,
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Excessive tyranny each day prevails.
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For three long years I was beastly treated
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And heavy iced on my legs I   wore
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My back with flogging is lacerated
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And often painted with my crimson gore
And many a man from
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downright starvation
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Lies mouldering now
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underneath the clay
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And Captain Logan, he had us mangled
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At the triangles of Morton Bay
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Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews
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We were oppressed under Logan's yoke
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Till a native black lying there in ambush
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Did give our tyrant his mortal stroke
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My fellow prisoners, be exhilarated
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That all such monsters
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such a death may find
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And when from bondage we are liberated
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Our former sufferings shall fade from mind you