{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2245225,"song":"Moreton Bay","artist":"John Denver","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2245225-moreton-bay-chords-by-john-denver/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2245225?type=chord","rating":4.69494,"votes":12,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOne Sunday morning as I went walking[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]A/C#[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]  \r\nBy Brisbane Waters I chanced to stray[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI heard a convict his fate bewailing[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Esus4[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs on the sunny riverbank he lay[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI am a native of Arran Island[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]A/C#[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nBut banished now from my native shore[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey stole me from my independence[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]Esus4[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd from the maiden whom I do adore[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                       [ch]Fm[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nAt Norfolk Island and Emu Plains[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAt Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]Esus4[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAt all these settlements I've been in chains[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut of all places of condemnation[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]A/C#[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nAnd penal stations in New South Wales[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo Moreton Bay I have found no equal[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]Esus4[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nExcessive tyranny each day prevails[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFor three long years I was beastly treated[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]A/C#[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nAnd heavy irons on my legs I wore[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy back from flogging was lacerated[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]Esus4[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd oft times covered with my crimson gore[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd many a man from downright starvation[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]A/C#[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nLies mouldering now beneath the clay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd Captain Logan he had us mangled[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]Esus4[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOn the triangles of Moreton Bay[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLike the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]A/C#[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nWe were oppressed under Logan's yoke[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTill a native black lying there in ambush[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]Esus4[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nDid deal our tyrant with his mortal stroke[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy fellow prisoners be exhilarated[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]A/C#[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nThat all such monsters like death shall find[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd when from bondage we're extricated[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]Esus4[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOur former suffering will fade from mind[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOne Sunday morning as I was walking[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]A/C#[/ch]  [ch]B7[/ch]  \r\nBy Brisbane Waters I chanced to stray[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI heard a convict his fate bewailing[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Esus4[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs on the sunny riverbank he lay[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]","chords":["E","A","A/C#","B7","Esus4","Fm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Esus4":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,2,0,0]},"Fm":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,1,1,1]}}}