Текст песни с аккордами
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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One summer morning as I went walking,
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By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray,
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I heard a convict his fate bewailing,
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As on the sunny river bank he lay,
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I am a native of Erin's island,
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Oh banished now from my native shore,
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They tore me from my aged parents,
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And from the maiden whom I adore.
[Verse 2]
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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 Toongabbie,
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At all those settlements I've worked in chains,
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But of all those places of condemnation,
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And penal stations in New South Wales,
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In Moreton Bay I have found no equal,
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Excessive tyranny each day prevails.
[Verse 3]
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For three long years I've been badly treated,
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With heavy irons on my legs I wore,
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My back with flogging is lacerated,
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And painted with my own crimson gore,
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And many a man from downright starvation,
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Lies mouldering now underneath the clay,
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And Captain Logan he had us tortured,
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At the pillories down at Moreton Bay.
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[Verse 4]
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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 waiting there in ambush,
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Did give this tyrant his mortal stroke,
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My fellow prisoners be exhilarated,
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That all such monsters such death may find,
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And when from bondage we're liberated
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Our former suffering shall fade from mind
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