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Thread #43089   Message #4045445
Posted By: Daniel Kelly
12-Apr-20 - 01:25 AM
Thread Name: Ned Kelly - True History
Subject: RE: Ned Kelly - True History
Posting here because I know Sandra will probably see it.

I had a song suggested to me by Ewan Lawrie of the Canberra Shanty Club.

'Ye Sons of Australia' was recorded by Danny Spooner and Martyn Wyndham-Read on various LPs in the 60s & 70s and the song appears in a 1968 published book of Bush Songs by Douglas Stewart. No author is credited, which seems strange for a song being circulated only 70-80 years after the death of Ned.

Interestingly, the start of the song focuses on Ned's sister, Kate Kelly.

Sandra has published the lyrics elsewhere here on mudcat.

Here is my recording.