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Verse 1
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Arrested on the streets of Glascow
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his majesty a debt I owe
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They threw me onto the Fortune
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And I lagged into Sydney cove
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I felt the cat of nine tails
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Before my feet hit the yellow sand
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With boots full of blood
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I trod onto a strange land
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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She don't speak the keeper said
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Cleans the cabins and the stables
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Brings the water and the bread
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Dragged her down to the lodging slum
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Now she remains silent
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Amongst the grunts and the spilled rum
Verse 3
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Black fulla come to stop them once
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So they tied him to the scraggin' pole
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Three hundred lashes
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But they couldn't kill his soul
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Smacking herself with stones
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The grunters burned his body
And for the night left her alone
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Interlude 2
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Verse 4
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They put me on the iron gang
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The stock of the colony
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Need a road over the mountains
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And in a few years you
might be free
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Breaking stones and building
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Dyin' every day
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Shackled round my ankles
Verse 5
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She was coming with
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The Grunters were all drunk
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When they saw her coming
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They chained our gang to
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a red gum stump
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And then a Grunter named Jackson
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Started tugging at her clothes
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She remained silent
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Kept walking like water flows
Verse 6
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And then Jackson got his musket
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Cracked it across her back
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And the Grunters all took turns on her
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Until they passed out on the track
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No rain had yet fallen
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Thunder roared all around
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Mary lay in the dirt
Bloody
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Face up to the dark cloud
Verse 7
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And then lightning struck an Iron Bark
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Lit the scrub down underneath
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Me and the gang were still chained up
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And the Grunters still asleep
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I watched the fire roll over them
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I could feel the blisters on my head
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Then from through the flames
She rode on Jackson's thoroughbred
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Verse 8
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She's the river and the wind
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And she moves through the bloodwoods
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And the fire is her friend
Verse 9
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Her name is Killara
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She's the river and the wind
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And she moves through the bloodwoods
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And the fire is a friend
Verse 10
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And if you're ever in the Watagans
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You can hear her voice
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Singing out the truth for you
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Leaving you with a choice
Outro 1
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