
Date of issue: 31.12.2002
Song language: English
Moreton Bay |
One Sunday morning as I went walking |
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray |
I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing |
As on the sunny river bank he lay |
I am a native from Erin’s island |
Transported now from my native shore |
They tore me from my aged parents |
And from the maiden whom I adore |
I’ve been a prisoner at Port Macquarie |
At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains |
At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie |
At all those settlements I’ve woked in chains |
But of all places of condemnation |
And penal stations of New South Wales |
Of Moreton Bay I have found no equal |
Excessive tyranny each day prevails |
For three long years I was beastly treated |
And heavy irons on my legs I wore |
My back from flogging was lacerated |
And often slain with my crimson gore |
And many a man from downright starvation |
Lies mouldering underneath the clay |
And Captain Logan he had us mangled |
At the triangles in Moreton Bay |
Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews |
We were oppressed under Logan’s yoke |
Till a native black lying there in ambush |
Did give our tyrant his mortal stroke |
My fellow prisoners exhilarated |
That all such monsters a death shall find |
And when from bondage we’re liberated |
Our former sufferings shall fade from mind |
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