Ballad Of Moreton Bay Akkorde von 
The Brothers Four 
N/A
Key: C major•
Verse 1
C
Am
C
G
C
One Sunday
Am
morning as I went walking
C
Am
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
C
Am
I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing
C
G
C
As on a sunny river bank he lay
Am
I am a native Arous Island
C
Am
And vanished now from
my native shore
C
Am
They tore me from my aged parents
C
And from the maiden who
I adore
Am
C
G
Verse 2
C
Am
I've been a prisoner at Port McQuerry
C
Am
At Norfolk Island and Eve Plains
C
Am
At Castle Hill and at Curston Cavy
C
G
At all those settle ments
C
I've worked in chains
Am
But of all places of condemnation
C
Am
And penal stations of New South Wales
C
Am
To Moreton Bay I have found no equal
C
Ex cessive tyranny each day
prevails
Am
C
G
Verse 3
C
Am
For three long years I was
cruely treated
C
Am
Heavy irons on my legs I wore
C
Am
My back with flogging is lacerated
C
G
When begged to stop they
C
would offer more
And many a man from
Am
down right starvation
C
Am
Lies moldering under neath the clay
C
Am
And Captain Logan he had us tortured
C
At the billeries down at
Moreton Bay
Am
C
G
Verse 4
C
Am
Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews
C
We were oppressed under
Am
Lo gan's rule
C
Am
Until the native black and in ambush
C
G
C
Did give our tyr ant is mortal stroke?
Am
My fellow prisoners be ex hilarated
C
Am
That all such tyrants such death may find
C
Am
And when from bundage we're liberated
C
Our former suffering shall from
mind
Am
C
G
Verse 5
C
Am
One Sunday morning as I went walking
C
Am
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
C
Am
I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing
C
As on a sunny river bank he lay.
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Akkorde & SongtexteC Am G
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Am
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