《Moreton Bay》歌词

[00:00:00] Moreton Bay - Bernard Fanning

[00:00:00] Written by：Traditional

[00:00:06] One Sunday morning as I went walking

[00:00:11] By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray

[00:00:16] I heard a prisoner his fate bewailing

[00:00:21] As on the sunny river bank he lay

[00:00:25] I am a native from Erin's island

[00:00:29] Transported now from my native shore

[00:00:35] They tore me from my aged parents

[00:00:40] And from the maiden whom I adore

[00:00:46] I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie

[00:00:51] At Norfolk Island and emu plains

[00:00:55] At castle hill and cursed Toongabbie

[00:01:00] At all those settlements I've woked in chains

[00:01:05] But of all places of condemnation

[00:01:09] And penal stations of new south wales

[00:01:14] Of Moreton bay I have found no equal

[00:01:18] Excessive tyranny each day prevails

[00:01:25] For three long years I was beastly treated

[00:01:30] And heavy irons on my legs I wore

[00:01:34] My back from flogging was lacerated

[00:01:39] And often slain with my crimson gore

[00:01:43] And many a man from downright starvation

[00:01:48] Lies mouldering underneath the clay

[00:01:53] And captain logan he had us mangled

[00:01:57] At the triangles in Moreton Bay

[00:02:02] Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews

[00:02:06] We were oppressed under Logan's yoke

[00:02:11] Till a native black lying there in ambush

[00:02:15] Did give our tyrant his mortal stroke

[00:02:20] My fellow prisoners exhilarated

[00:02:24] That all such monsters a death shall find

[00:02:29] And when from bondage we're liberated

[00:02:33] Our former sufferings shall fade from mind