Bold jack donahue lyrics

Artist  : Sandy denny 
Song : Bold jack donahue
 
Come all you gallant bushrangers who gallop o’er
the plains
Refuse to live in slavery, or wear the convict
chains.
Attention pay to what I say, and value if I do
For I will relate the matchless tale of bold jack
donahue.

Come all you sons of liberty and everyone
besides
I’ll sing to you a story that will fill you with
surprise
Concerning of a bold bushranger, jack donahue was
his name
And he scorned to humble to the crown, bound down
with iron chain.

Now donahue was taken all for a notorious crime
And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows tree
so high
But when they took him to bathurst gaol, he left
them in a stew
For when they came to call the roll, they missed
jack donahue.

Now when donahue made his escape, to the bush he
went straight way.
The squatters they were all afraid to travel by
night and by day
And every day in the newspapers, they brought out
something new,
Concerning that bold bushranger they called jack
donahue.

Now one day as he was riding the mountainside
alone
Not thinking that the pains of death would
overtake him soon.
When all he spied the horse police well on they
came up into view
And in double quick time they did advance to take
jack donahue.

``oh donahue, donahue, throw down your carbine.
Or do you intend to fight us all and will you not
resign? ’’
``surrender to such cowardly dogs is a thing that
I never would do,
For this day I’ll fight with all my might’’,
cried bold jack donahue.

Now the sergeant and the corporal, their men they
did divide
Some fired at him from behind and some from every
side.
The sergeant and the corporal, they both fired at
him, too.
And a rifle bullet pierced the heart of bold jack
donahue.

Now nine rounds he fired and nine men down before
that fated ball
Which pierced his heart and made him smart and
caused him for to fall
And as he closed his mournful eyes, he bid the
world adieu,
Saying ``convicts all, pray for the soul of bold
jack donahue.’’