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28 May 11 - 10:04 AM (#3161730) Subject: Lyr Req: Bushranger Jack Power From: GUEST,kirstylaw Hi all - I was wonering if anyone has the text for this song? I have found a recording of it but cant find the words and there's a few - esp of place names that I can't make out from the recording. Much appreciated, all the best Kirsty |
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28 May 11 - 12:29 PM (#3161771) Subject: Lyr Add: BUSHRANGER JACK POWER From: Sandra in Sydney from Warren Fahey's website - Bushranger Jack Power SOURCE: photocopy held by the Melbourne Argus, dated 19th August 1950 TUNE: Erin Go Bragh Site Source: Section 5. Crime and Corruption BUSHRANGER JACK POWER On the 8th day of May, in the year 69 On a lovely spring morning, the weather 'being fine A bolter from Pentridge, Jack Power by name An aspirant for the gallows to Beechworth he came Well armed, well mounted, the troops for his foes To a scrub for concealment the highway man goes From Beechworth to the Buckland and on the highway Run Cobb & Co coaches by night & by day Early one morning the outlaw approach'd Towards Bowman's forest and he held up a coach He held up two draymen and a new saddle stole And a horse, and coach wheeler, it's true bless me soul He met with a trooper near the small town of Yea Good morning Sir Trooper my orders obey Hand here that revolver or if you refuse You must fight or deliver - pray which do you choose? The trooper surrender'd his horse and his arms Then hasten'd to Yea town to give the alarm "Farewell "shouts the rover "This revolver's my sheild To the traps or the gallows I never will yield." We may sing of young Gilbert, Dan Morgan, Ben Hall But the bold reckless robber surpasses them all The pluck that is in him is beyond all belief A daring young highwayman, a professional thief. |
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12 Jun 11 - 10:01 AM (#3169302) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bushranger Jack Power From: GUEST thanks Sandra in Sydney - much appreciated. kirsty |
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21 Sep 11 - 08:52 AM (#3226566) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bushranger Jack Power From: cloudstreet Here's the text from the Melbourne Argus under the heading, Clive Turnbull Says: A song from wilder days VOU may remember that a few months ago we had quite a correspondence about the old song, "The Wild Colon- ial Boy." Miss Elsie Heath of Gras- mere, Sheep Hills, whose father was one of the pioneers of the Wimmera when it was thrown open for selection, writes that she has vivid recollections of the song as her father sang it to the children sitting 'round the fire on cold wintry nights - it varies slightly from the versions already published. Better still, Miss Heath tells me that her mother, not long ago, found in her own mother's work box a cbpy of the song "Bushranger Jack Power." It is written- on blue lined foolscap, still readable though worn, in a fine hand, and, Miss Heath suggests, is probably 80 years old. The signature, pre- sumably of the writer, is Isaac Hall. The lyric follows. John |