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John Denver - Moreton Bay Lyrics

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  • This song was first released on the live at the sydney opera house album. it is the only album it has been released on.
  • One sunday morning as I was walking
  • By brisbane waters I chance to stray
  • I heard a convict his fait bewhaling
  • As on the sunny riverbank he lay
  • I am a native of erin, ireland
  • But banished now from my native shore
  • They stole me from my independence
  • And from the maiden whom I do adore
  • Ive been a prisoner at port macquarie
  • At norfolk island and emu plains
  • At castle ule and curstune garbby
  • At all these settlements Ive been enchained
  • But of all places of condemnation
  • And penal stations in new south wales
  • To moreton bay I have found no equal
  • Excessive tyranny each day prevails
  • For three long years I was beastly treated
  • And heavy irons on my legs I wore
  • My back from flogging was lacerated
  • And oft times covered with my crimson gore
  • And many a man from downright starvation
  • Lies smouldering now beneath the cave
  • And captain logan he had us mangled
  • On the triangles of moreton bay
  • Like the egyptians and ancient hebrews
  • We were oppressed under logans yoh
  • Till a native black lying bare and ambush
  • Did deal out tyrant with his mortal stroke
  • My fellow prisoners be exhilerated
  • Let all such monsters like death shall find
  • And when from bondage were extricated
  • Our former suffering shall will fade from mind
  • One sunday morning as I was walking
  • By brisbane waters I chance to stray
  • I heard a convict his fait bewhaling
  • As on the sunny riverbank he lay
  • Words and music - traditional

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