The Wild Colonial Boy-The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem

[ti:The Wild Colonial Boy] [ar:The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem] [al:The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem Live at Carnegie Hall - November 3, 1962] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Wild Colonial Boy - The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem [00:04.32]There was a wild colonial boy [00:08.32]Jack duggan was his name [00:11.50] [00:12.11]He was born and raised in Ireland in a [00:16.88]Place called Castlemaine [00:20.50]He was his father's only son his [00:24.82]Mother's pride and joy [00:28.65]And dearly did his parents love [00:32.71]The wild colonial boy [00:36.14] [00:36.66]At the early age of sixteen years [00:40.74]He left his native home [00:43.91] [00:44.45]And to Australia's sunny shore [00:48.61]He was inclined to roam [00:52.08] [00:52.66]He robbed the rich he helped the poor [00:56.85]He shot James McAvoy [01:00.67]A terror to Australia was the wild colonial boy [01:08.11] [01:08.67]One morning on the prairie as [01:12.88]Jack he rode along [01:15.56] [01:16.54]A listening to the mockingbird a [01:20.76]Singing a cheerful song [01:23.79] [01:24.49]Out stepped a band of troopers [01:27.65]Kelly Davis and Fitzroy [01:32.40]They all set out to capture him the [01:36.60]Wild colonial boy [01:39.84] [01:40.47]Surrender now Jack duggan for [01:44.22]You see we're three to one [01:47.15] [01:48.15]Surrender in the king's high name [01:52.23]You're a plundering son [01:54.97] [01:56.18]Jack pulled two pistols from his belt and [02:00.19]He proudly waved them high [02:03.88]I'll fight but not surrender said [02:07.97]The wild colonial boy [02:11.47] [02:11.98]He fired a shot at kelly which [02:16.33]Brought him to the ground [02:19.22] [02:19.87]And turning 'round to davis he [02:23.98]Received a fatal wound [02:27.22] [02:27.88]A bullet pierced his proud young [02:31.12]Heart from the pistol of fitzroy [02:35.37] [02:35.92]And that was how they captured [02:39.02]Him the wild colonial boy