MORETON BAY

JOHN DENVER

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O ne Sunday morning as I wen t walking

By Brisbane Waters I chanced to str ay

I heard a convict his fate be wailing

As on the sunny riverbank he lay

I a m a native of Erin's Ir eland

But banished now from my native sho re

The y stole me from my aged pa rents

And from the maiden whom I do adore

I've b een a prisoner at Port Mac quarie

At N orfolk Island and Emu Plai ns

At Ca stle Hill and the cursed Toonga bbie

At all these settlements I've been in chains

But of all places of condemnat ion

And penal stations in New South Wale s

To Moreton Bay I have found no e qual

Exce ssive tyranny each day prevails

For three long years I was beastly tre ated

And heavy irons on my legs I wor e

My back from flogging was lacera ted

And oft times painted with my crimson gore

And many a man from downright starv ation

Lies mouldering now underneath the cla y

And Captain Logan he had us mangl ed

All On the triangles of Moreton Bay

Lik e the Egyptians and ancient Hebre ws

We were oppressed under Logan's yoke

Till a native black lying there in amb ush

Did deal this tyrant with his mortal stroke

My f ellow prisoners be exhilarated

Tha t all such monsters like death may find

An d when from bondage we're libe rated

Our former suffering soon will fade from mind

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Moreton Bay - Live at the Sydney Opera House, Australia - November 1977

John Denver

John Denver Live At The Sydney Opera House

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