THE WILD COLONIAL BOY    3/4 (But played like 2/4?)

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    THERE WAS A WILD COLONIAL BOY, JACK DUGAN WAS HIS NAME

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    HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN IRELAND IN A PLACE CALLED CASTLE-MAIN

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    HE WAS HIS FATHER'S ONLY SON, HIS MOTHER'S PRIDE AND JOY

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    AND DEARLY DID HIS PARENTS LOVE THE WILD COLONIAL BOY

 

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    AT THE EARLY AGE OF SIXTEEN YEARS HE LEFT HIS NATIVE HOME

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    AND THRU AUSTRALIA'S SUNNY CLIME HE WAS INCLINED TO ROAM  

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    HE ROBBED THE LORDLY SQUATTERS, THEIR FLOCKS HE WOULD DESTROY

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    A TERROR TO AUSTRALIA WAS THE WILD COLONIAL BOY

 

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    FOR TWO LONG YEARS THIS DARING YOUTH RAN ON HIS WILD CAREER

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    WITH A HEART THAT KNEW NO DANGER, THEIR JUSTICE HE DID NOT FEAR

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    HE ROBBED THE RICH TO PAY THE POOR, HE ROBBED JUDGE MACEL - ROY

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    WHO TREMBLING GAVE HIS GOLD UP TO      THE WILD COLONIAL BOY

 

 

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   HE BADE THE JUDGE GOOD MORNING, AND HE TOLD HIM TO BE-WARE

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    FOR HE WAS NOT AN HON-EST JUDGE THAT ACTED ON THE SQUARE

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    THAT HE WOULD ROB A MOTH-ER OF HER SON AND ON-LY JOY

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   AND BREED A BAND OF OUT-LAWS   LIKE THE WILD COLONIAL BOY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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   ONE MORNING ON THE PRAIRIE YOUNG JACK DUGAN RODE ALONG

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    WHILE LIST-NING TO THE MOCKING BIRDS SING-ING A CHEER-FUL SONG

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    OUT JUMPED THREE TROOPERS FIERCE AND GRIM, KELLY, DAVIS AND FITZ-ROY

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    THEY'D ALL SET OUT TO CAPTURE HIM, THE WILD COLONIAL BOY

 

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    SUR - RENDER NOW JACK DUGAN, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S THREE TO ONE

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    SUR-RENDER IN THE QUEEN'S NAME, SIR.  YOU ARE A PLUND'RING SON.

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    JACK DREW TWO PISTOLS FROM HIS SIDE AND PROUDLY HELD THEM HIGH

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    I'LL FIGHT BUT NOT SURRENDER SAID THE WILD COLONIAL BOY

 

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    HE FIRED POINT BLANK AT KELLY AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE GROUND

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    HE FIRED A SHOT AT DAVIS TOO  WHO FELL DEAD AT THE SOUND

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    BUT A BULLET PIERCED HIS BRAVE YOUNG HEART FROM THE PISTOL OF FITZROY

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    AND THAT WAS HOW THEY CAPTURED HIM THE   WILD COLONIAL BOY