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Poor Ned
Redgum


CHORUS
G                D
Poor Ned, you're better off dead
   C                              G
At least you'll get some peace of mind
G
You're out on the track
        D
They're right on your back
C                           G
Boy, they're gonna hang you high 


VERSE 1
G                       D                     C                  G
In eighteen-hundred and seventy eight was the year I remember so well
G                        D           C                  G
They put my father in an early grave slung my mother in gaol
G                       D                       C              G
Now I don't know what's right or wrong but they hung Christ on nails
G                        D                        C                      G
Six kids at home and two still on the breast they wouldn't even give her bail

CHORUS

VERSE 2
You know I wrote a letter 'bout Stringy-Bark Creek
So they would understand that I might be a bushranger
But I'm not a murdering man
And I didn't want to shoot Kennedy or that copper Lonnigan
He alone could have saved his life by throwing down his gun

CHORUS

VERSE 3
You know they took Ned Kelly and they hung him in the Melbourne gaol
He fought so very bravely dressed in iron mail
And no man single handed can hope to break the bars
It's a thousand like Ned Kelly who'll hoist the flag of stars


Submitted by Ric Raftis. All corrections and suggestions to ric@bushverse.com