Well, it's not particularly memorable, but it's a cute song and video. I'm guessing it may have been written just for this show, which appears to be some sort of John Denver Down Under special. I wonder how he could do it without his sometime sidekick Olivia Newton John (wait - isn't that Olivia at the end of the video?).

Here's what I hear. The parts that are unclear to me, are in brackets.
-Joe-


If you're ever in some outback pub late on a Saturday night,
Here's a tale the cobbers all tell about a [bull who loved to fight]
Like Robin Hood and Billy the Kid and Frank and Jesse James,
[this man he turned to robbin'], Ned Kelly was his name.

CHORUS
So, here's to Old Ned Kelly and his [suit of armor plate]
Swallowed up by progress, [just in time to be too late]

But robbin' was rough, and Ned had enough of catchin' bullets with his skin;
So his mother and his brother and his sister Kate made him a suit of tin.
With his mother and his brother and his sister Kate, they made a rowdy gang;
[Pitchin pokes at] every bloke that rode on the Melbourne train.
CHORUS

spoken: You're too late, Ned!

Yes, takin' from the rich and givin' to the poor was old Ned Kelly's game;
His reward was a prison yard and a rope that bore his name.
CHORUS (twice)


Can anybody clarify the parts I goofed up?