Bold Jack Donohue

Intro 
N.C. 
Come all you gallant bushrangers that gallop on the plain 
That's going to live in slavery,orwear the convictchain 
Attention pay to what I say,and value it if you do 
I will relate the matchless fate of Bold Jack Donahue 


[Verso 1]
 
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Bold Donahue was taken all for a notorious crime 
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And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows tree so high 
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But when they brought him to Bathurst Gaol, he left them in a stew 
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For when they came to call the roll, they missed Jack Donahue 
 


[Verso 2]
 
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When Donahue made his escape, to the bush he went straight way 
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The squatters they were all afraid to travel by night and day 
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And every day in the newspapers, they brought out something new 
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Concerning that bold bushranger they called Jack Donahue 
 


[Verso 3]
 
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As he and his companions rode out one afternoon 
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Not thinking that the pains of death would overtake him soon 
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To their surprise the horse police well on they came in view 
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And in double quick time they did advance to take Jack Donahue 
 


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Oh Donahue, Donahue, throw down your carabine 
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Or do you intend to fight us all and will you not resign? 
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To surrender to such cowardly dogs is a thing I never would do 
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This day I'll fight with all me might, says Bold Jack Donahue 
 


[Verso 5]
 
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It never shall be said of me that Donahue the brave 
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Surrendered to a policeman or became an Englishman's slave 
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I'd rather roam the bush so wide like a dingo or kangaroo 
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Than work one day for the government, says Bold Jack Donahue 
 


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The sergeant and the corporal, they did their men divide 
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Some fired at him from behind and some from every side 
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The sergeant and the corporal, they both fired at him too 
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And a rifle ball pierced the heart of Bold Jack Donahue 
 


[Verso 7]
 
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Nine rounds he fired and nine men shot before that fatal ball 
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That pierced his heart and made him smart and caused him for to fall 
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And as he closed his mournful eyes, he bid the world adieu 
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Saying, Convicts all, pray for the soul of Bold Jack Donahue.