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Moreton Bay (Aussie folk song)
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The only Aussie folk song I'm aware of that is based specifically in Brisbane, Qld, the place I now call home. This slightly truncated version is also the first song my husband heard me sing on stage (it's our 6th Anniversary tomorrow), so has speci
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Hmmm, well it's not exactly a band at this point... just one girl with a voice thought of as 'beautiful' 'haunting' 'lovely' and 'unique', who's sick of being told how much she is 'wasting her god-given talent' and is looking for an outlet to share it with the whole world... ;O As I do not compose my own music...yet... I intend to help fellow-SoundClicker Jeni Wallwork (JenSong) by singing and marketing songs she has written. In case I CAN'T work out how to upload my voice.. feel free to contact me on ringnecknuts@yahoo.com.au as either eMail or Yahoo!Messenger account, and I will happily sing directly for you! ;OD
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Genre
World • World General
Charts
Peak #423
Peak in subgenre #90
Author
unknown
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unknown
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April 11, 2009
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MP3 1.4 MB • 128 kbps • 1:30
Story behind the song
Moreton Bay was one of the harshest penal colonies of the Old World, and Captain Logan had a notorious reputation for being particularly cruel in punishments. He was eventually ambushed and killed by a Native.
Lyrics
One Sunday morning when I was walking By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray. I heard a convict his fate bewailing as on the sunny river bank he lay. <> "I am a Native of Erin Island transported here from my native shore. They tore me from my aged parents and from the maiden that I do adore". He spoke of how he and other convicts at Norfolk Island and Emu Plains endured the lash and near starvation imprisoned there, bound down by iron chains. But at Moreton Bay there was Captain Logan Their backs with floggings he would lacerate, until a Native laying there in ambush did deal that Tyrant his mortal fate. He told of how they were exhilarated that all such monsters a like death may find and when from bondage they were liberated the former sufferings should fade from mind.
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