Moreton Bay chords by Traditional

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.

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