Tonart: Ab major
Verse 1
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One Sunday
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mornin' as I went walkin'
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Em
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By Brisbane wa ters I chanced astray
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I heard a convict, his fate bewailing,
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As on the sunny river bank I lay.
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I am a native from Arran's island,
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But banished now from my native shore.
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They stole me from my aged par ents,
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And from the maiden I do ad ore.
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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 Kerstoon Gabby,
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At all these settlement
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s I've been in chains.
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But of all the places of condemnation,
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And penal sta tions in New South Wales,
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To Martin Bay I've found no equal,
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Excessive tyranny each day prevails.
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For three long years I was beastly treated,
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And heavy irons on my legs I wore.
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My back from flogging was lacerated,
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And oft times painted with crimson gore,
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Lies mouldry now underneath the clay.
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And Captain Lo gan, he had us mangled
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All at Triangles of Martin
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vay.
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Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews
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We were oppressed under
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Lo gan's yoke
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Till a native black lying there in ambush
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Did deal this tyrant his mortal stroke.
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My fellow prisoners been exhilarated
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That all such monsters a death may find,
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And when from bondage we're liberated,
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How former sufferings will fade from mind.
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