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GUEST,John Carroll - Canberra Lyr Req: Dunn, Gilbert and Ben Hall (Wyndham-Read) (11) Lyr Add: DID YOU KNOW THEM? (Kenneth Cook) 03 May 11


That's a pretty old thread, but here is an addition to it.

"Did You Know Them" - written probably in the 1960s by Kenneth Cook (author of the novel "Wake In Fright") and sung by his wife Patricia Cook on the album "Songs From Colonial Days", Paul Hamlyn MFP-A 8040 1972.

DID YOU KNOW THEM
(Kenneth Cook)

Did you know my mate Ben Hall?
when he rode the Weddin mountain.
I never thought to see him fall.
But did you know - they shot him.

And did you know his friend John Dunne?
the one who fought the p'lice at Forbes.
You know he wore a yankee gun.
But did you know - they hanged him.

(Chorus)
You'll never hear their hoofbeats now.
of those men who rode the dark night.
Guns, saddles and campfires -
ashes in the starlight.

And did you know that darkie lad.
the one they used to call Frank Gardiner?
You know the winning ways he had.
But did you know - they jailed him.

And Johnny Gilbert he was there,
when they bailed up Wangaratta.
There was nothing he'd not dare.
Did you know, - he died fighting.

(Chorus)

There was a price upon their heads,
a thousand pound the price of their blood
A thousand pound alive or dead.
Did you know? - that it's been paid.

The Gardiner, Gilbert, Dunne and Hall,
did you never see them riding?
Through the mountain timbers tall?
Now one by one they've all gone.

(Chorus)


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