Chords for Denis Gibbons - The Wild Colonial Boy. (Australian Folk Music)

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_ [A] _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
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There _ was a wild [A] _ _ colonial boy, [Gb] Jack _ [Abm] Doole was [E] his name. _ _
Of poor but _ [Abm] honest parents he was born in [E] Castle, Maine. _ _
He [A] was his _ [E] father's _ [A] only hope, his _ [Abm] mother's pride and [E] joy. _ _
And _ dearly [A] did his _ [Gbm] parents love the [Abm] wild _ _ colonial boy.
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_ _ [Gbm] _ _ [A] _ [Eb] _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ He was scarcely sixteen _ [A] _
[Gbm] years of age when he [Abm] left his [E] parents' _ home.
_ _ And through _ _ _ [Gbm] Australia's sunny _ clime a bush ranger [E] did roam.
_ _ He robbed [A] the wealthy _ squatters and their stock [Gbm] he did [E] _
destroy.
_ _ A terror _ to [A] _
Australia [Gbm] _ was [Abm] the wild _ _ [E] colonial boy. _ _ _ _ _
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[Abm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ In sixty-one [A] this [Gbm] daring youth _ [B] commenced his [E] wild career.
_ With a heart that knew [Gbm] no danger and no home and [E] did he _ fear.
_ He stuck [A] up a beach [E] with mail [A] coach and he robbed [B] Judge _ [E] _ McAvoy.
_ _ Who _ trembled and _ gave [A] up all his gold to the wild [Abm] _ _ colonial [E] boy.
_ _ He _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Gbm] _ _ [A] _ [Eb] _ _ [Abm] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ bade the judge [A] good morning [Gbm] and he told to _ [E] _ beware.
_ That he'd never _ [Gbm] rob a _ hearty chap who acted on [E] the square.
_ And he'd _ never rob a mother [A] _ of her one and only [E] joy. _
_ _ Or else he may turn out [A] _
like [Gbm] _ the wild _ [Abm] colonial [E] boy. _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Gbm] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Abm] _
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_ _ One day while he [A] was _ [Gbm] riding _ the mountain _ [Abm] side _ along.
[E] _ _ _ _ [Abm] Listening to [Gbm] the little birds their _ pleasant laughing [E] _ _
song.
_ Three _ [A] mounted _ [E] troopers rode [A] along Kelly _ [Gbm] Davis and _ [E] _ Fitzroy.
_ _ Saying here's our chance [A] to capture him [B] the wild [E] _ colonial _ boy.
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ Surrender _ _ now [A] Jack _ Doolan for [Gbm] you see [Abm] there's three to [E] one. _
_ _ _ _ Surrender _ in [Eb] the _ Queen's [Abm] name you _ daring _ [E] highway man.
_ _ Jack [A] drew a pistol _ [E] _ from [A] his belt and _ aimed it at [E] Fitzroy. _
_ _ I'll fight but not [A] surrender _
[Gbm] _ said the [Abm] wild _ _ colonial boy. _
_ [E] He _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Gbm] _ _ [A] _ [Gbm] _ _ [Abm] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ fired at _ [A] Trooper _ Kelly and he [B] _
brought him to [E] the ground.
_ _ And in _ _ return [Gbm] from _ Davis he _ received a [E] mortal _ _ wound.
_ All _ [A] shattered through [Abm] the [A] jaws he lay still [Abm] firing [Eb] at [E] _
Fitzroy.
_ _ _ And that's the way [Gbm] they captured him the [B] wild _ _ [E] colonial boy. _ _ _ _
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