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LYR ADD: The Death of Ben Hall (w/RA)
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE DEATH OF BEN HALL From: Ezio Date: 29 Aug 98 - 02:51 AM CLICK TO LISTEN (Format=Real Audio 3.0, 28.8 mono *** Time=01:27 *** Size=174 kb) (available on line for a few days only - sorry) ------
THE DEATH OF BEN HALL(Trad.) Come all Australia's son to me, a hero has been slain So do not stay your manly grief, but let the tear drops fall He never robbed a needy man as all his records show No mark of Cain was on his brow, no widow's curse did fall For ever since the good old days of Turpin and Duval But savagely they murdered him, those cowardely blue-coat imps So do not stay your manly grief, but let the tear drops fall --- Sung by Eric Bogle on 'Down Under' (1981) ---
Background: an Australian tradtional song. Ben Hall was the Australian Bush Ranger, and with some cause. Most Australian Bushrangers have become admired folk-heroes, but most of them were very rough customers indeed, who didn't hesitate to steal from anybody, no matter how poor! There is evidence to show that Ben Hall who was forced into Bush-Ranging by crooked police, actually never robbed a poor man. He was held in great regard by the people of the time, the poor people anyway. It is generally agreed by present day historians, that he was a victim of the oppression from the forces of law and order. Eric Bogle.
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Subject: RE: LYR ADD: The Death of Ben Hall (w/RA) From: Alan of Australia Date: 29 Aug 98 - 03:49 AM G'day, I may have said this before in this forum: My mother grew up in Grenfell in the 1920s & 30s. Grenfell, apart from being the birth place of Henry Lawson (and myself!) is right in Ben Hall country. She says that when she was growing up the locals generally believed that Ben Hall had been badly treated and that true justice did not prevail in his case. Cheers, |
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