Moreton Bay tab by Traditional

Moreton Bay      Frank McNamara/Australian Folk Song

Transcribed by K Woodgate

Easy melody Version

The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William Clauson
and many other Australian Folk records.


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1 One Sun-day morn-ing as I was walk-ing ....
Stray
2 'I've been a con-vict at Port Mac-qua-rie ...
Plains
3 For three long years I was beastly treated And ...
4 Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews We were ...

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1 I heard a con-vict his fate be-wail-ing  ...
2  At cas-tle hill and cur-sed toon...
worked in chains
3  My back with floggings was lacerated, ...
4  Till a native black lying there in ...
stroke

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1 I am a nat-ive of Er-in's is-land Trans...
2 But of all pla-ces of con-dem-na-...
Wales
3 And many a man from downright starvation ...
clay
4 My fellow prisoners, be exhilarated That ...
may find

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1 They tore me from my a-ged pa-rents ...
2 To Moreton Bay I have found no equal: ...
pre-vails
3 And Captain Logan he had us mangled At the ...
4 And when from bondage we are liberated, ...
from mind