Chords for Irish Rovers - Wild Colonial Boy

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There was a wild [F] colonial boy, [Bb] yet look it [Eb] was his name.
He was born in [Ab] Bredin, _ [Fm]
Nyerland, [Bb] at a place called [Eb] Castle [Bb] Mane.
[Eb] He was his father's [Fm] only son, [Bb] his mother's pride [Eb] and [Bb] joy.
[Eb] And dearly did his [Fm] parents love [Bb] their wild [Eb] colonial boy.
At the early [Ab] age of [Fm] sixty [Bb] years he left his [Eb] native home.
_ And to _ [Ab] Australia's [Fm] sunny shores [Bb] he was inclined [Eb] to [Bb] go.
[Eb] He robbed the rich to help [Fm] the poor, [Bb] he stabbed him [Eb] back a [Bb] boy.
_ [Eb] And fair and true [Fm] Australia was [Bb] the wild [Eb] colonial boy. _
One morning [F] on the prairie [Bb] wilds at Yackey [Eb] Road and Long.
And listening to [Ab] the [Fm] _
[Bb] mockingbird and singing its [Eb] cheerful _ [Bb]
song.
A jump reached [Ab] rippers [Fm] wild and fierce, [Bb] Kelly Davis and [Eb] Fitzroy.
[Bb] _
_ [Eb] They all set [Ab] out to [Fm] capture him, [Bb] the wild [Eb] colonial boy.
_ _ Surrender now [Ab] Jackie [Fm] Duggan, why [Bb] can't you see that we're three [Eb] to one. _
_ _ Surrender in [Fm] Victoria's name, [Bb] for you are a [Eb] plundering son.
[Bb] _
[Eb] Jack threw two [Ab] pistols from [Fm] his belt [Bb] and he shouted to [Eb] Fitzroy.
[Bb] _
[Eb] And Fitz could [Ab] not surrender [Fm]
cried [Bb] the wild [Eb] colonial boy. _
He fired a shot at Kelly [Fm]
which [Bb] did bring him to [Eb] the ground. _
And he fired points like [Ab] a [Fm] Davis [Bb] who fell dead at [Eb] the sound.
[Bb]
For [Eb] a bullet pierced [Ab] his brave [Fm] young [Bb] heart from the pistol of [Eb] [Bb] Fitzroy. _
[Eb] And that was [Ab] how they [Fm] captured [Bb] him, the wild colonial [Eb] boy. _
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