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Thread #48888   Message #736361
Posted By: masato sakurai
25-Jun-02 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: The 'Abercrombie Mountains' - Ben
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The 'Abercrombie Mountains' - Ben
Possibly not a full version.

"An Australian version [of "Whiskey in the Jar (Kilgary Mountain)"] introduces still another mountain and ties in the story with Australian history. Sir Frederick Pottinger was police inspector for the Lachlan gold field in New South Wales. Because he tried to put down bushranging (outlawry), he became a frequent target for bushrangers and satirists; he died in 1865 when one of his own pistols accidentally exploded."

As I was a-crossin' the Abercrombie Mountains,
I met Sir Frederick Pottinger, and his money he was countin'.
I first drew me blunderbuss and then I drew me sabre,
Sayin', "Stand and deliver-oh! for I'm your bold decayver."
With my mush-a-ring-a-dah,
Ri-tooral-addy-ah
Ri-tooral-addy-ah
There's whiskey in the jar.

I robbed him of his money; it was a pretty penny,
I robbed him of it all and I took it home to Jenny;
I took it home to Jenny and I thought she'd ne're deceive me.
Oh, the divil's in the wimmin for they never can be aisy.

(SOURCE: James F. Leisy, The Folk Song Abecedary, Hawthorn, 1966, p. 355)

~Masato