Song Name: | Moreton Bay | By: | Australian Traditional |
Posted By: | TIN_MAN | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | D | Genre: | Folk |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2008-12-01 16:12:15 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | MORETON BAY TRADITIONAL
4 4 4 4 5 6 7 -6 -6 7 One sun-day morn-ing as I went walk-ing 6 5 4 4 -4 5 -4 4 4 By bris-bane wat-ers I chanced to stray 4 4 4 4 5 6 7 -6 -6 7 I heard a con-vict his fate be-wail-ing -6 6 5 4 4 -4 5 -4 4 4 As on the sun-ny riv-er bank he lay 6 6 6 6 -6 -6 7 -6 -6 7 -6 I am a nat-ive of E-rins is-land and 6 5 4 -4 5 -4 4 4 Ban-ished now from my nat-ive shore 4 4 4 4 5 7 -6 -6 7 They tore me from my a-ged par-ents -6 6 5 5 -4 4 -4 4 4 And from the maid-en whom I a-dore 2. Ive been a prisoner at port Macquarie At Norfolk island and emu plains At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie At all those settlements ive worked in chains But of all places of condemnation and penal stations of new south wales to moreton bay I have found no equal excessive tyranny each day prevails 3. For three long years I was beastly treated And heavy irons on my legs I wore My back with flogging lacerated And often painted with crimson gore And many a man from down right starvation Lies mouldring now underneath the clay The captain logan he had us mangled on The triangles of moreton bay ENJOY!! |