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Poor Ned, you're better off dead

At least you'll get some peace of mind

You're out on the track, they're right on your  back

Boy they're gonna hang you high

[C] Eighteen-hundred & [G] 78

Was the [F] year I remember so [C] well

[C] They put my father in an [G] early grave

And [F] slung my mother in [C] gaol

[C] Now I don't know what's [G] right or wrong

But they [F] hung Christ on [C] nails

[C] Six kids at home and [G] two still on the breast

[F] They wouldn't even give her [C] bail

[C] Poor Ned, you're [G] better off dead

[F] At least you'll get some peace of [C] mind

You're [C] out on the track, they're [G] right on your  back

[F] Boy they're gonna hang you [C] high

[C] You know I wrote a letter about [G] Stringybark Creek

[F] So they would under-[C]-stand

That [C] I might be a [G] bushranger

But I'm [F] not a murdering [C] man

[C] I didn't want to shoot [G] Kennedy

Or that [F] copper Lonni-[C]-gan

[C] He alone could have [G] saved his life

By [F] throwing down his [C] gun

[C] Poor Ned, you're [G] better off dead

[F] At least you'll get some peace of [C] mind

You're [C] out on the track, they're [G] right on your  back

[F] Boy they're gonna hang you [C] high

[C] You know they took Ned [G] Kelly

And they [F] hung him in the Melbourne [C] gaol

He [C] fought so very [G] bravely

[F] Dressed in iron [C] mail

But [C] no man single [G] handed

Can [F] hope to break the [C] bars

It's a [C] thousand like Ned [G] Kelly

Who'll [F] hoist the flag of [C] stars

We sing [C] Poor Ned, you're [G] better off dead

[F] At least you'll get some peace of [C] mind

You're [C] out on the track, they're [G] right on your  back

[F] Boy they're gonna hang you [C] high

[C] Poor Ned, you're [G] better off dead

[F] At least you'll get some peace of [C] mind

You're [C] out on the track, they're [G] right on your  back

[F] Boy they're gonna hang you [C] high