Key: C major
Verse 1
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There was a wild, colonial boy
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Jack Donahue was his name
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he was born in Castle Lane
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He was his father's only son
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His mother's pride and joy
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The wild colonial boy
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He was scarcely sixteen years of age
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When he left his father's home
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An outlaw he did roam
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He robbed the Beechworth mail coach
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And he shot Judge McAvoy
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a wild colonial boy
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mountainside along
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their pleasant laughin' song
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Three mounted troopers rode along,
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Kelly, Davis and Fitzroy
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the wild, colonial boy
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Surrender now, Jack Do nahue,
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for you see, there's three to one
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you daring highwaymen
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He threw his pistol from his belt
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I'll fight but not surrender,
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spend a while alone, you boy.
He fired at Trooper Kelly
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an d he brought him to the ground.
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he received a mortal wound.
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A bullet through his heart he lay,
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still firing at Fitzroy.
And that's the way they
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captured him,
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the wild colonial boy.
And that's the way they
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captured him,
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