Moreton Bay chords by Traditional

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C

Verse 1:
  C          Am     F        C       Am      Dm
One Sunday morning as I went walking, by the Brisbane's waters I chanced to stray,
 C           Am          C           F    C
I heard a convict his fate bewailing, as on the sunny river bank he lay;
 C        Am         C           F
I am a native of Erin's island but banished now to the fatal shore,
   C         Am         C       G   C
They tore me from my aged parents and from the maiden I do adore.

Verse 2:
   C          Am    F     C     Am      Dm
I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie, Norfolk Island and Emu Plains,
  C            Am        C              F      C
At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie, at all those settlements I've worked in chains;
    C           Am           C         F
But of all those places of condemnation, in each penal station of New South Wales,
  C            Am       C              G    C
To Moreton Bay I've found no equal: excessive tyranny there each day prevails.

Verse 3:
  C            Am    F     C    Am      Dm
For three long years I was beastly treated, heavy irons on my legs I wore,
  C              Am        C          F     C
My back from flogging it was lacerated, and often painted with crimson gore,
  C          Am            C          F
And many a lad from downright starvation lies mouldering humbly beneath the clay,
   C         Am        C           G     C
Where Captain Logan he had us mangled on his triangles at Moreton Bay.

Verse 4:
   C          Am    F       C    Am       Dm
Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews, we were oppressed under Logan's yoke,
    C         Am            C        F    C
Till a native black who lay in ambush did give our tyrant his mortal stroke.
C             Am        C             F
Fellow prisoners, be exhilarated, that all such monsters such a death may find!
  C             Am        C             G      C
And when from bondage we are liberated, our former sufferings shall fade from mind.