《Moreton Bay》歌词

[00:00:00] Moreton Bay - Paul Costa

[00:00:13] One Sunday morning as I was walking

[00:00:17] By Brisbane Waters I chance to stray

[00:00:23] I heard a convict his fait bewhaling

[00:00:28] As on the sunny riverbank he lay

[00:00:34] I am a native of Erin Ireland

[00:00:39] But banished now from my native shore

[00:00:44] They stole me from my independence

[00:00:49] And from the maiden whom I do adore

[00:00:55] I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie

[00:01:00] At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains

[00:01:05] At Castle Ule and Curstune Garbby

[00:01:10] At all these settlements I've been enchained

[00:01:16] But of all places of condemnation

[00:01:21] And penal stations in New South Wales

[00:01:26] To Moreton Bay I have found no equal

[00:01:31] Excessive tyranny each day prevails

[00:01:37] For three long years I was beastly treated

[00:01:42] And heavy irons on my legs I wore

[00:01:48] My back from flogging was lacerated

[00:01:52] And oft times covered in my crimson gore

[00:01:58] And many a man from down right starvation

[00:02:03] Lies smouldering now beneath the cave

[00:02:09] And Captain Logan he had us mangled

[00:02:14] On the triangles of Moreton Bay

[00:02:20] Like the Egyptians and ancient Hebrews

[00:02:25] We were oppressed under Logan's yoh

[00:02:30] Till a native black lying bare and ambush

[00:02:35] Did deal out tyrant with his mortal stroke

[00:02:41] My fellow prisoners be exhilerated

[00:02:46] Let all such monsters like death shall find

[00:02:51] And when from bondage we're extricated

[00:02:56] Our former suffering shall will fade from mind

[00:03:02] One Sunday morning as I was walking

[00:03:07] By Brisbane Waters I chance to stray

[00:03:12] I heard a convict his fait bewhaling

[00:03:17] As on the sunny riverbank he lay