The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25266   Message #2157809
Posted By: Teribus
26-Sep-07 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: Wild Colonial Boy: any history?
Subject: RE: Wild Colonial Boy: any history?
Mr Happy, a version does exist with a chorus, I'll do a bit of research and come back on it, I've got a sneaking feeling the tune was the same as or very similar to "The Rising of the Moon"

Think the Chorus ran something like this:

"And it's come away together
We'll roam the mountains high
Together we will plunder
Or together we will die
We will wander over valleys
And gallop over plains
For we scorn to live in slavery
Bound down by iron chains"

damn near forty years since I heard it. If memory serves correctly by the Ian Campbell Folk Group.