REDGUM   - Poor Ned

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Eighteen-hundred & 78 was the year I remeber so well
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they put my father in an early grave and slung my mother in gaol
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now I don't know whats right or wrong
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but they hung Christ on nails
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6 kids at home & 2 still on the breast
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they wouldn't even give us bail

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Poor Ned, you're better off dead
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at least you'll get some peace of mind
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you're out on the track
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they're right on your  back
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boy they're gonna hang you high      )

You know I wrote a letter 'bout Stringy-Bark Creek
so they would understand
that I might be a bushranger
but I'm not a murdering man
I didn't want to shoot Kennedy
or that copper Lonnigan
he alone could have saved his life
by throwing down his gun

CHORUS

You know they took Ned Kelly
& they hung him in the Melbourne gaol
he fought so very bravely
dressed in iron mail
& no man single handed
can hope to break the bars
there's a thousand like Ned Kelly
who'll hoist the flag of stars

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"Such is Life"   -  Ned Kelly