Moreton Bay-John Denver

[ti:Moreton Bay] [ar:John Denver] [al:Live At The Sydney Opera House] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Moreton Bay - John Denver (约翰·丹佛) [00:10.30]One sunday morning as I was walking [00:15.75]By brisbane waters I chance to stray [00:20.76] [00:21.48]I heard a convict his fait bewhaling [00:26.78]As on the sunny riverbank he lay [00:31.98] [00:32.51]I am a native of erin ireland [00:36.88]But banished now from my native shore [00:42.04] [00:42.81]They stole me from my independence [00:47.53] [00:48.04]And from the maiden whom I do adore [00:52.72] [00:54.49]I've been a prisoner at port macquarie [00:58.26] [00:58.77]At norfolk island and emu plains [01:03.26] [01:04.19]At castle ule and curstune garbby [01:09.13]At all these settlements I've been enchained [01:13.79] [01:14.58]But of all places of condemnation [01:19.65]And penal stations in new south wales [01:24.46] [01:25.68]To moreton bay I have found no equal [01:30.81]Excessive tyranny each day prevails [01:35.80] [01:36.52]For three long years I was beastly treated [01:41.20]And heavy irons on my legs I wore [01:45.91] [01:46.57]My back from flogging was lacerated [01:51.30]And oft times covered with my crimson gore [01:55.71] [01:56.56]And many a man from downright starvation [02:01.89]Lies smouldering now beneath the cave [02:06.68] [02:07.30]And captain logan he had us mangled [02:12.48]On the triangles of moreton bay [02:17.83] [02:19.29]Like the egyptians and ancient hebrews [02:24.89]We were oppressed under logan's yoh [02:29.83]Till a native black lying bare and ambush [02:34.75]Did deal out tyrant with his mortal stroke [02:39.75]My fellow prisoners be exhilerated [02:44.74]Let all such monsters like death shall find [02:49.34] [02:50.16]And when from bondage we're extricated [02:55.49]Our former suffering shall will fade from mind [03:00.75] [03:01.95]One sunday morning as I was walking [03:07.71] [03:08.31]By brisbane waters I chance to stray [03:13.52] [03:14.75]I heard a convict his fait bewhaling [03:20.77] [03:21.88]As on the sunny riverbank he lay