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From: Waylon Smithers 
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

D (xx0232@1)                A (x02220@1)        G (320003@1)               DEighteen-hundred (xx0232@1)& 78 was the year I remeber so well
D (xx0232@1)                      A (x02220@1)             G (320003@1)                Dthey (xx0232@1)put my father in an early grave and slung my mother in gaol
D (xx0232@1)                    Anow (x02220@1)I don't know whats right or wrong
         G (320003@1)            Dbut (xx0232@1)they hung Christ on nails
D (xx0232@1)              A6 (x02220@1)kids at home & 2 still on the breast
     G (320003@1)                   Dthey (xx0232@1)wouldn't even give us bail


( CHORUS:

D (xx0232@1)              APoor (x02220@1)Ned, you're better off dead
   G (320003@1)                            Dat (xx0232@1)least you'll get some peace of mind
Dyou're (xx0232@1)out on the track
Athey're (x02220@1)right on your  back
G (320003@1)                        Gboy (320003@1)they're gonna hang you high      )

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       - GD CG

"Such is Life"   -  Ned Kelly