The Bog Standards - Poor Ned (Redgum Cover)

From the "Over the Hills But Not Too Far Away" set live on a Loch Lomond beach.
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This song was written by the Australian band Redgum.
We play this song in GM with the chords GM, DM, CM.
Lyrics:
Poor Ned, you're better off dead,
At least you'll get some peace of mind
You're out on the track, they're right on your back
Boy they're 'gonna hang you high

Eighteen hundred and seventy eight
Was the year I remember so well
They put my father in an early grave
Slung my mother in gaol
Now I don't know what's right or wrong
But they hung Christ on nails
Six kids at home and two still on the breast
They wouldn't even give her bail

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

​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