Moreton Bay

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[Verse]
E A
One Sunday morning as I went walking
E A/C# B7
By Brisbane Waters I chanced to stray
E A
I heard a convict his fate bewailing
E Esus4 E
As on the sunny riverbank he lay
E A
I am a native of Arran Island
E A/C# B7
But banished now from my native shore
E A
They stole me from my independence
E Esus4 E
And from the maiden whom I do adore
E A
I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie
E Fm B7
At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains
E A
At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie
E Esus4 E
At all these settlements I've been in chains
E A
But of all places of condemnation
E A/C# B7
And penal stations in New South Wales
E A
To Moreton Bay I have found no equal
E Esus4 E
Excessive tyranny each day prevails
E A
For three long years I was beastly treated
E A/C# B7
And heavy irons on my legs I wore
E A
My back from flogging was lacerated
E Esus4 E
And oft times covered with my crimson gore
E A
And many a man from downright starvation
E A/C# B7
Lies mouldering now beneath the clay
E A
And Captain Logan he had us mangled
E Esus4 E
On the triangles of Moreton Bay
E A
Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews
E A/C# B7
We were oppressed under Logan's yoke
E A
Till a native black lying there in ambush
E Esus4 E
Did deal our tyrant with his mortal stroke
E A
My fellow prisoners be exhilarated
E A/C# B7
That all such monsters like death shall find
E A
And when from bondage we're extricated
E Esus4 E
Our former suffering will fade from mind
E A
One Sunday morning as I was walking
E A/C# B7
By Brisbane Waters I chanced to stray
E A
I heard a convict his fate bewailing
E Esus4 E
As on the sunny riverbank he lay

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Moreton Bay Chords by John Denver

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