I am a bold bush-ranger, Ned Kelly is my name;
My band is known and feared across the Great Australian Plain.
From Adelaide to Darwin, and from Perth to Port Brisbane.

All along the muddy Darwin River up to North Queensland,
I've robbed the bloody bossman with my armor-plated band;
And the evening whisper 'Kelly' 'cross the West Australian sand.

There's many a nosy trooper would like to see me swing;
But the bushmen sing my praises out along by Alice Springs;
Kangaroos will be my watchdogs where the kookaburra sings.

Now my days are numbered and the law is on my trail;
Fitzpatrick has his men a-buzzin' round my head like hail;
And I know I must be taken to be hanged in Melbourne Jail.



from the singing of The Corries.


Seamus