{"id":8192,"date":"2017-11-01T06:17:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:42:08","slug":"the-wild-colonial-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8192","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Colonial Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Wild_Colonial_Boy.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Wild_Colonial_Boy.mp3\"> The Wild Colonial Boy &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThe Wild Colonial Boy is a traditional Irish song. It&#8217;s the story of a young lad who sailed from his home in Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland to Australia in the early nineteenth century and became a sort of Robbin Hood &#8220;robbing from the rich to feed the poor.&#8221; This is an account of his adventure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[D] There was a wild [G] colonial boy,<br \/>\n[A7] Jack Duggan was his [D] name<br \/>\nHe was born and raised in [Em] Ireland,<br \/>\nin a [A7 place called [D] Castlemaine<br \/>\nHe was his father&#8217;s [Em] only son,<br \/>\nhis [A7] mother&#8217;s pride and [D] joy<br \/>\nAnd dearly did his [G] parents love<br \/>\nthe [A7] wild colonial [D] boy<\/p>\n<p>At the early age of sixteen years,<br \/>\nhe left his native home<br \/>\nAnd to Australia&#8217;s sunny shore,<br \/>\nhe was inclined to roam<br \/>\nHe robbed the rich, he helped the poor,<br \/>\nhe shot James MacEvoy<br \/>\nA terror to Australia was<br \/>\nthe wild colonial boy<\/p>\n<p>One morning on the prairie,<br \/>\nas Jack he rode along<br \/>\nA-listening to the mocking bird,<br \/>\na-singing a cheerful song<br \/>\nUp stepped a band of troopers:<br \/>\nKelly, Davis and Fitzroy<br \/>\nThey all set out to capture him,<br \/>\nthe wild colonial boy<\/p>\n<p>Surrender now, Jack Duggan,<br \/>\nfor you see we&#8217;re three to one.<br \/>\nSurrender in the King&#8217;s high name,<br \/>\nyou are a plundering son<br \/>\nJack drew two pistols from his belt,<br \/>\nhe proudly waved them high.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ll fight, but not surrender,&#8221;<br \/>\nsaid the wild colonial boy<\/p>\n<p>He fired a shot at Kelly,<br \/>\nwhich brought him to the ground<br \/>\nAnd turning round to Davis,<br \/>\nhe received a fatal wound<br \/>\nA bullet pierced his proud young heart,<br \/>\nfrom the pistol of Fitzroy<br \/>\nAnd that was how they captured him,<br \/>\nthe wild colonial boy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Wild Colonial Boy &#8211; Click To Play The Wild Colonial Boy is a traditional Irish song. It&#8217;s the story of a young lad who sailed from his home in Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland to Australia in the early nineteenth century and became a sort of Robbin Hood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wild Colonial Boy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8938,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}