Moreton Bay chords by Bernard Fanning

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: D

6/8 Timing

Intro:

(Interpretation of mandolin)

e|--10--7-------------|--------------------|
B|---------10--7------|------7-------------|
G|----------------7~~-|-9-------9--7--7~~~~|
D|--------------------|--------------------|
Q|--------------------|--------------------|
E|--------------------|--------------------|

Verse 1:
           D          Bm     G
One Sunday morning as I went walking
            D         Bm        Em
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
          D            Bm   G
I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing
           D          A       D
As on the sunny river bank he lay
       D           Bm     G
I am a native from Erin's island
            D           Bm     Em
Transported now from my native shore
             D       Bm   G
They tore me from my aged parents
             D           A  D
And from the maiden whom I adore

Verse 2:
            D           Bm   G
I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie
           D          Bm  Em
At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains
          D           Bm   G
At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie
             D                A         D
At all those settlements I've worked in chains
           D         Bm    G
But of all places of condemnation
          D           Bm        Em
And penal stations of New South Wales
           D          Bm       G
Of Moreton Bay I have found no equal
          D            A      D
Excessive tyranny each day prevails

Verse 3:
               D           Bm      G
For three long years I was beastly treated
          D           Bm     Em
And heavy irons on my legs I wore
             D            Bm  G
My back from flogging was lacerated
          D               A       D
And often stained with my crimson gore
           D            Bm        G
And many a man from downright starvation
     D               Bm        Em
Lies mouldering underneath the clay
          D           Bm   G
And Captain Logan he had us mangled
           D          A       D
At the triangles in Moreton Bay

Verse 4:
          D             Bm      G
Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews
         D              Bm      Em
We were oppressed under Logan's yoke
              D           Bm       G
Till a native black lying there in ambush
             D          A      D
Did give our tyrant his mortal stroke
          D          Bm   G
My fellow prisoners exhilarated
              D          Bm           Em
That all such monsters a death shall find
              D             Bm  G
And when from bondage we're liberated
           D                A         D
Our former sufferings shall fade from mind



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