The Wild Colonial Boy chords by
Alex Hood

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Key: C major•

Verse 1

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There was a wild colonial boy,

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Jack Doolin was his name.

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Of poor but honest parents,

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he was born in Castle Main.

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He was his father's only hope

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and his mother's pride and joy.

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So dearly did his parents love

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their wild colonial boy

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So come away, my hearties,

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we'll range the mountainside

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Together we will plunder

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and together we will ride

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We'll cross the wild blue mountains

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And we'll scour the baffled plains

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We scorn to live in slavery

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Bound down with iron chains

He was scarcely sixteen

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years of age

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When he left his father's home

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And through Australia's sunny clime,

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a bushranger did roam.

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He robbed those wealthy squatters,

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and their stock he did destroy.

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And a terror to the rich man

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was the wild colonial boy.

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In sixty -one this daring youth

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Commenced his wild career

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With a heart that knew no danger

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No foeman did he fear

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He stuck up the Beechworth mail coach

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And he robbed Judge McAvoy

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Who, trembling cold, gave up his gold

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To the wild Cologne yule boy.

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One day as he was ridin'

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the mountainside along,

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A -listenin' to that kookaburra's

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happy lovin' song,

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He spied three mounted troopers,

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Kelly Davis and Fitzroy.

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Wide enough to capture him,

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the wild colonial boy.

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Surrender now, Jack Doolan,

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for you see there's three to one.

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Surrender in the Queen's name,

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for you're a plunderin' son

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Jack drew a pistol for all his belt,

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and he waved it like a toy

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I'll fight, but I'll never surrender,

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cried the wild colonial boy

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He fired at Trooper Kelly,

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and he brought him to the ground

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And in return from Davis,

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he received a mortal wound

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All shattered through the jaws he lay,

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still firing at Fitzroy

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And that's the way they cap tured him,

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wild colonial boy

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So come away, my hearties,

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we'll raise the mountains high

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Together we will plunder,

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G

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and together we will ride

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We'll cross the wild blue mountains

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And we'll scour the Bathurst plains

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For we scorn to live in slavery

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Bound down with iron chains

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