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Poor Ned, you're better off dead
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At least you'll get some peace of mind
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You're out on the track
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They're right on your back
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Boy they're 'gonna hang you high
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Eighteen hundred and seventy eight
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Was the year I remember so well
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They put my father in an early grave
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Slung my mother in gaol
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Now I don't know what's right or wrong
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But they hung Christ on nails
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Six kids at home and two still on the breast
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They wouldn't even give her bail
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Poor Ned, you're better off dead
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At least you'll get some peace of mind
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You're out on the track
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They're right on your back
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Boy, they're 'gonna hang you high
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You know I wrote a letter
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'Bout Stringy-Bark Creek
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So they would understand
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That I might be a bushranger
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But I'm not a murdering man
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I didn't want to shoot Kennedy
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Or that copper Lonnigan
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He alone could have saved his life
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By throwing down his gun
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Poor Ned, you're better off dead
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At least you'll get some peace of mind
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You're out on the track
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They're right on your back
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Boy, they're 'gonna hang you high
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You know they took Ned Kelly
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And they hung him in the Melbourne gaol
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He fought so very bravely
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Dressed in iron mail
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And no man single-handed
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Can hope to break the bars
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It's a thousand like Ned Kelly
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Who'll hoist the flag of stars
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Poor Ned, you're better off dead
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At least you'll get some peace of mind
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You're out on the track
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They're right on your back
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Boy, they're 'gonna hang you high
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