Tonart: E major•
Verse 1
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One Sunday
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morning as I was walking
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By Brisbane Waters I chance to stray
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I heard a convict his fate be wailing
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As on the sunny ri verbank he lay
Verse 2
Erin, Ireland
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But banished now from my native shore
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They stole me from my independence
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And from the maiden whom I
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do adore
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I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie
Verse 3
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At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains
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At Castle Hill and cursed
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Toongabbie
At all these settlements
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I've been enchained
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But of all places of condemnation And
Verse 4
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penal stations in New South Wales
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To Moreton Bay I have found no equal
day prevails
Verse 5
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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 of t times covered with my
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crimson gore
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And many a man from downright starvation
Verse 6
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Lies mouldering now beneath the clay
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And Captain Logan he had
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us mangled
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On the triangles of Moreton Bay
Verse 7
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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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'Til a native black lying bare in ambush
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Did deal our tyrant with his mortal
Verse 8
stroke
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My fellow prisoners be ex hilarated
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Let all such monsters like death shall find
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And when from bondage
will fade from mind
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One Sunday morning as I was walking By
Verse 9
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Brisbane Waters I chance to stray
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I heard a convict his fate bewailing
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As on the sunny riverbank he lay
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