《A Tale They Won’t Believe》歌词

[00:00:16] We left Macquarie Harbour it was in the pouring rain

[00:00:21] none of us quite sure if we would see England again

[00:00:25] some fool muttered death or liberty

[00:00:29] there was six of us together a jolly hungry crew

[00:00:33] and as the days went by you know our hunger quickly grew

[00:00:37] some fool muttered death or liberty

[00:00:42] So that night we made fires out of twigs and out of bark

[00:00:46] and our stomachs they were grumbling all through the night so dark

[00:00:50] we were only trying to keep ourselves alive

[00:00:54] but when the sun came up next morning well the six had turned to five

[00:00:58] And I said right there's another one don't you frown

[00:01:01] Chew the meat and hold it down It's a tale they won't believe

[00:01:06] When I get down to Hobart town

[00:01:16] All five of us were nervous and I'll tell you that's a fact

[00:01:20] bu you should have seen the bastard who was carrying the axe

[00:01:24] He was a sick man he had murder in his heart

[00:01:28] And then we reached the Franklin River and it took two days to cross

[00:01:32] we were wet and almost starvin' and for food were at a loss

[00:01:36] we were hungry men with murder on our minds

[00:01:40] So that night we made a fire out of twigs and out of bark

[00:01:45] and our stomachs they were rumbling all through the night so dark

[00:01:49] And they were making noises the dead could not ignore

[00:01:53] and when the sun came up next morning

[00:01:55] the five had turned to four

[00:01:57] And I said right there's another one don't you frown

[00:01:59] Chew the meat and hold it down It's a tale they won't believe

[00:02:05] When I get down to Hobart town

[00:02:10] Well the four of us kept marching to a place called Western Teirs

[00:02:14] A country full of tasty game but for us it held no cheer

[00:02:18] we had no guns we were traveling without hope

[00:02:23] But the axe it loomed so ominous and God's hand was at play

[00:02:27] a sick man is a type of game which can not run away

[00:02:30] so stay easy my poor man your time's at hand

[00:02:35] So that night we made fires out of twigs and out of bark

[00:02:39] and our stomachs they were grumbling all through the night so dark

[00:02:44] I can't say I feel guilty after all it wasn't me

[00:02:47] but when the sun came up next morning the four had turned to three

[00:02:51] And I said right there's another one don't you frown

[00:02:54] Chew the meat and hold it down It's a tale they won't believe

[00:02:59] When I get down to Hobart town

[00:03:05] well the three of us kept moving but one was fading fast

[00:03:09] he had been bitten by a snake and you could see he would not last

[00:03:13] stay easy my good man your time is at hand

[00:03:17] and when he could last no longer his days were fading fast

[00:03:21] we were far to weak to carry him subsistency comes first

[00:03:25] stay easy my good man your time is at hand

[00:03:29] So that night we made fires out of twigs and out of bark

[00:03:34] and our stomachs they were grumbling all through the night so dark

[00:03:38] It was a messy job but it was one we had to do

[00:03:42] but when the sun came up next morning the three had turned to two

[00:03:45] And I said right there's another one don't you frown

[00:03:48] Chew the meat and hold it down It's a tale they won't believe

[00:03:53] When I get down to Hobart town

[00:04:02] Now he had been looking at me funny sort of eyeing me for days

[00:04:07] And you would not need to be too bright to know that bastard's ways:

[00:04:11] He was a sick man he had murder in his heart

[00:04:15] But even bastards have to rest and even bastards have to sleep

[00:04:20] And when he was in the land of Nod straight over I did creep

[00:04:24] and the axe that he had wielded now was mine

[00:04:28] So that night I made the fire out of twigs and out of bark

[00:04:32] and my stomach it kept rumbling all through the night so dark

[00:04:36] I can't say that I enjoyed it and it wasn't exactly fun

[00:04:40] but when the sun came up next morning the two had turned to one

[00:04:44] And I said right there's another one don't you frown

[00:04:47] Chew the meat and hold it down It's a tale they won't believe

[00:04:51] When I get down to Hobart town

[00:05:24] Well now history is a pack of lies as any fool can tell

[00:06:00] So when I got down to Hobart town I told my story well

[00:06:05] But do you think they would believe one word I said

[00:06:09] For they thought that I was covering for my mates still at large

[00:06:13] Said they'd be roaming in the bush so wild and free

[00:06:17] And back to old Macquarie Harbour they sent me

[00:06:21] But I remember the fires made out of twigs and made of bark

[00:06:25] and my stomach it was grumbling all through the night so dark

[00:06:30] And this young fool he just said to me it's liberty or death

[00:06:34] and he looked a rather tasty one I just could not help it singing

[00:06:38] And I said right there's another one don't you frown

[00:06:40] Chew the meat and hold it down It's a tale they won't believe

[00:06:43] When I get down to Hobart town

[00:06:47] A tale they won't believe

[00:06:48] Chords

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[00:06:49] based on Australia's colonial past

[00:06:50] a macabre account of escaped men making

[00:06:50] their way across Tasmania resorting to

[00:06:53] cannibalism to survive the long trek in the bush

[00:06:54] from a passage in Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore