{"id":1308,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-ballad-of-jack-doolin"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-ballad-of-jack-doolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-ballad-of-jack-doolin\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BALLAD OF JACK DOOLIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

There was a wild colonial boy Jack Doolin was his name
\nOf poor but honest parents he was born near Castlemane
\nHe was his father’s only son his mother’s pride and joy
\nAnd dearly did his parents love their wild colonial boy
\nAt the early of sixteen years he left his native home
\nAnd round Australia’s sunny shores a bushranger did roam
\nHe robbed the wealthy squatters their stock he did destroy
\nA terror to Australia was the wild colonial boy<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nSo come along me hearty’s we’ll roam the mountains high
\nTogether we will plunder and together we will die
\nWe’ll wander over valleys and gallop over plains
\nAnd scorn to live in slavery bound down in iron chains<\/p>\n

In ’61 this daring youth commenced his wild career
\nWith a heart that knew no danger, no foeman did he fear
\nHe held up the Beechwood mail coach and robbed judge McEvoy
\nWho trembling told give up his gold to the wild colonial boy
\nWell he bade the judge good morning and told him to beware
\nHe never robbed an honest who acted on the square
\nBut a man who’d robbed his mother of her son and only joy
\nHe could expect no mercy from the wild colonial boy
\nChorus<\/p>\n

One day as he was riding the mountainside along
\nListening to the kookaburra’s pleasant laughing song
\nHe spied three mounted troopers Kelly, Davis and Fitzroy
\nWith a warrant for the capture of the wild colonial boy
\nSurrender now Jack Doolin you see we’re three to one
\nSurrender in the King’s high name you are a highwayman
\nJack drew a pistol from his belt and waved it like a toy
\nI’ll fight but not surrender cried the wild colonial boy
\nChorus<\/p>\n

He fired at trooper Kelly that brought him to the ground
\nAnd in return from Davis he received his fatal wound
\nAll shattered through the jaw he lay still firing at Fitzroy
\nAnd that’s the way they captured him the wild colonial boy
\nChorus<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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