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When first I left my native home, the blarney we were told
How the people in Australia they picked up lumps of gold
Where gold-bars lay on every street and the busterâ²s rights were free
Hurrah, said I, me napper-lads, oh thatâ²s the land for me
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With me swag upon me shoulder, rifle in my hand
And I robbed the banks of Australia like a true-born highwayman
When we arrived in Melbourne-Town to a bankhouse called The
Grave
I left the anxious Rag-shove-cop arrested in the safe
And all the pretty hostage girls threw up their hands with joy
Shouting to one another Here
comes
me
skinner-boy!
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I made my way to Gallowsport and north to Diemanâ²s Plain
And some of us get up and dust and some were shot in vain
I spent three years in Sydney-jail for gold I went to seek
I make my fortune in a day and Iâ²m dying in a week
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