Redgum - Poor Ned guitar chord

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From: Waylon Smithers

Subject: Redgum - Poor Ned

Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:23:44 +1000 (EST)

from Michael Hiltonwood i951612@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au

REDGUM - Poor Ned

D A G D

Eighteen-hundred & 78 was the year I remeber so well

D A G D

they put my father in an early grave and slung my mother in gaol

D A

now I don't know whats right or wrong

G D

but they hung Christ on nails

D A

6 kids at home & 2 still on the breast

G D

they wouldn't even give us bail

( CHORUS:

D A

Poor Ned, you're better off dead

G D

at least you'll get some peace of mind

D

you're out on the track

A

they're right on your back

G G

boy they're gonna hang you high )

You know I wrote a letter 'bout Stringy-Bark Creek

so they would understand

that I might be a bushranger

but I'm not a murdering man

I didn't want to shoot Kennedy

or that copper Lonnigan

he alone could have saved his life

by throwing down his gun

CHORUS

You know they took Ned Kelly

& they hung him in the Melbourne gaol

he fought so very bravely

dressed in iron mail

& no man single handed

can hope to break the bars

there's a thousand like Ned Kelly

who'll hoist the flag of stars

we sing...CHORUS

alternative keys - C G F C

or - G D C G

"Such is Life" - Ned Kelly