Wild Colonial Boy chords by Rolf Harris

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Verse 1
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No, there was a wild colonial boy
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Jack Doolin was his name
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He ran away from Ireland
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and to Australia came
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He robbed the wealthy squatters
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and their flocks he did destroy
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And the terror to the rich man
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was the wild colonial boy
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Hey! Now early one spring morning
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as Jack Doogan rode along
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A -listening to the little birds,
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their happy, warbling song
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Do you like the little birdie
bit there?
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I'll do it again
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He met three mounted troopers,
Kelly, Davis and Fitzroy
And they swore that they
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would capture him,
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the wild colonial boy
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So come along me hearties,
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we'll run the mountains high
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Together we will plunder
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and together we will die
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We'll wander over valleys
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and we'll gallop over plains
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For we scorn to live in slavery,
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bound down by iron chains
Now it's the troopers talking,
rough types
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Surrender now Jack Dugan,
for your sea is three to one
Surrender now, Jack Dugan,
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for your thieving days are done.
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He whipped the pistol from his belt
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and he shook that little toy.
I'll fight, but I won't surrender.
Shouts the wild colonial boy.
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So he fired at Trooper Kelly.
And he brought him to the ground.
But then a shot from Davis
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gave the boy his mortal wound
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That's to rhyme with ground
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in the previous line
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All shattered through the jaw he fell,
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still firing at Fitzroy
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And that's the way they finished him,
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the Wild Colobo
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So come along me hearties,
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we'll roam the mountains high
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Together we will plunder,
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together we will die
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We'll wander over valleys,
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gallop over plains
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For we scorn to live in slavery,
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bound down by iron chains