THE BALLAD OF NED KELLY chrom
19th C. Australian folk song
Key: A
Time: 2/4
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Oh pad-dy dear and did you hear
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The news that’s go-ing round
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On the head of bold Ned Kel-ly
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They have placed ten thou-sand pounds
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And on Joe Byrne, Steve Hart and Dan
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A thou-sand more they’d give
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But if the price was dou-ble boys
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The Kel-ly gang would live
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‘Tis hard to think such pluck-y hearts
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In crime should be em-ployed
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‘Tis by po-lice per-se-cu-tion
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They have all been much an-noyed
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Re-venge is sweet and in the bush
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They can de-fy the law
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Such stick-ing up and plun-der-ing
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You nev-er saw be-fore
