Chords for Early Tex Morton - The Original Ned Kelly Song (1939).

[Db] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ [Ab] I'll [Db] marry you! _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Ned Kelly was born in a ramshackle hut.
He battled since [Fm] he [Ab] was a kid.
[Gb] He grew up with [Eb] bad men [C] and [Bb] duffers and thieves
[Eb] and learned all [Ab] the things [Db] that they did.
[Bb] _ [Db] _ _ _ Young Kelly'd ride in from the back country hills,
ride into [Ab] town [Ab] like a log.
[Gb] He stole all the cocky's fine [Bb] horses
and then [Eb] took [Ab] him back for [Db] the _ [Bb] [Db] rewards. _
_ At sixteen, young Ned was a wild reckless lad,
rubbed coaches and trains [Ab] without fear.
[Gb] Till one night they [Bbm] caught him [C] red [Bb]-handed
and then [Eb] sent [Ab] him to jail [Db] for a year.
[Bb] _ [Db] _ _ _ But when he came out he was bitter and hard
and worse than he [Ab] ever had been.
[Gb] He robbed and he plundered, [C] became [Bb] a tough guy
[Eb] the [Ab] toughest Australia [Db] had seen. _
[C] _ _ [Db] _ _ He shot down the troopers who came on his trail,
laughed at the [Ab] price on his head.
[Gb] Ten thousand pounds [C] for the [Bb] whole of the [Eb] gang
and nearly [Ab] two [Db] thousand for Ned.
_ [Ab] _ _
[Db] _ The bank at Jerilderie next caught his eye,
this job bought him [Ab] lots of renown.
[Gb] They weren't just [C] contented to [Bb] hold up the bank,
[Eb] they stuck up [Ab] the whole [Db] gloomin' town.
[Ab] _ [Db] _ _ _ Then down at Glenrowan they held up the pub
and were havin' [Ab] a drink and a song.
_ [Gb] The troopers rode up [C] and surrounded [Bb] the place.
[Eb] The [Ab] Kellys had waited [Db] too long. _
_ Well, Ned [Fm] come out [Db] shootin', a gun in each hand
and wearin' his [Ab] armour of steel.
_ [Gb] Twelve times he was [Cm] wounded before [Bb] he fell down,
[Eb] never [Ab] more would he plunder [Db] and steal.
[Ab] _ [Db] _ _ They took him to Melbourne and nursed him to health.
The judge [Eb] says you're guilty [Ab] to Ned.
[C] [Gb] A rope from the rafter, the [C] sun [Bb] in the [Eb] east
and the famous [Ab] Ned Kelly [Db] was [Ab] dead.
[C] _
[Db] _ Some say he's [Ab] a [Db] hero, he gave to the poor,
while others a killer they [Ab] say.
[Gb] But to me it just proves [C] the old [Bb] saying is true,
[Eb] the [Ab] saying that crime [Db] does not pay.
[Bb] _ [Db] _ _ _
But when I look round at some people I know
and the prices of things [Ab] that we buy,
[Gb] I think to myself, well, [E] perhaps [Bb] after all
poor [Eb] old Ned [Ab] wasn't such a [Db] bad [Gb] guy.
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