Stranger Song chords by Marian Henderson

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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 river bank he lay
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I am a native of Arran'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 agent 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 Thule and Gabby,
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At 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 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 irons 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 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 Lo  gan Joe
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Till a native black lying there in ambush
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Did give old Tyrant his mortal stroke
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My fellow prisoners be ex hilarated
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That all such monsters
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such a death may find
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An d when from bondage we are liberated
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All former suffering shall fade from mind you