Chords with lyrics
- Capo on 2nd
- Difficulty: Beginner
Key: C majorC Verse 1: C majorC A minorAm FF C majorC A minorAm DmDm One Sunday morning as I went walking, by the Brisbane's waters I chanced to stray, C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF C majorC I heard a convict his fate bewailing, as on the sunny river bank he lay; C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF I am a native of Erin's island but banished now to the fatal shore, C majorC A minorAm C majorC G+G C majorC They tore me from my aged parents and from the maiden I do adore. Verse 2: C majorC A minorAm FF C majorC A minorAm DmDm I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie, Norfolk Island and Emu Plains, C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF C majorC At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie, at all those settlements I've worked in chains; C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF But of all those places of condemnation, in each penal station of New South Wales, C majorC A minorAm C majorC G+G C majorC To Moreton Bay I've found no equal: excessive tyranny there each day prevails. Verse 3: C majorC A minorAm FF C majorC A minorAm DmDm For three long years I was beastly treated, heavy irons on my legs I wore, C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF C majorC My back from flogging it was lacerated, and often painted with crimson gore, C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF And many a lad from downright starvation lies mouldering humbly beneath the clay, C majorC A minorAm C majorC G+G C majorC Where Captain Logan he had us mangled on his triangles at Moreton Bay. Verse 4: C majorC A minorAm FF C majorC A minorAm DmDm Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews, we were oppressed under Logan's yoke, C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF C majorC Till a native black who lay in ambush did give our tyrant his mortal stroke. C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF Fellow prisoners, be exhilarated, that all such monsters such a death may find! C majorC A minorAm C majorC G+G C majorC And when from bondage we are liberated, our former sufferings shall fade from mind.
Other versions of Moreton Bay
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