From: Waylon Smithers <i951612@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> Subject: Redgum - Poor Ned Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:23:44 +1000 (EST) from Michael Hiltonwood i951612@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au REDGUM - Poor Ned

^DEighteen-hundred &a^Amp; 78 was ^Gthe year I remeber^D so well ^Dthey put my father in an ^Aearly grave and ^Gslung my mother in ^Dgaol ^Dnow I don't know whats ^Aright or wrong but they ^Ghung Christ on ^Dnails ^D6 kids at home &a^Amp; 2 still on the breast they ^Gwouldn't even give us ^Dbail

( CHORUS:

^DPoor Ned, you're ^Abetter off dead at ^Gleast you'll get some peace of ^Dmind ^Dyou're out on the track ^Athey're right on your back ^Gboy they're gonna hang you ^Ghigh )

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 I didn't want to shoot Kennedy or that copper Lonnigan he alone could have saved his life by throwing down his gun CHORUS You know they took Ned Kelly & they hung him in the Melbourne gaol he fought so very bravely dressed in iron mail & no man single handed can hope to break the bars there's a thousand like Ned Kelly who'll hoist the flag of stars we sing...CHORUS alternative keys - C G F C or - G D C G "Such is Life" - Ned Kelly

Redgum - Poor ned