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A traditional ballad about the largest gold robbery of its day, when in 1862, Frank "Darkie" Gardiner and his bushranging gang held up the Gold Escort, a horse drawn stage coach, on its way from Forbes to Bathurst, at a place known as Eugowra Rocks, New South Wales, Australia, during the Goldrush. Gardiner's gang included Ben Hall and Johnny Gilbert.

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=============== LYRICS =====================
Eugowra Rocks
(Traditional)
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[ V.1 ]
It's all about bold Frank Gardiner with the devil in his eye
He said, "We've work before us lads we've got to do or die
So blacken up your faces before the dead of night
Its over by Eugowra Rocks, we'll either fall or fight"
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[ CHORUS : ]
You can sing of Johnny Gilbert,
Dan Morgan and Ben Hall
But the bold and reckless Gardiner,
He's the boy to beat them all
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[ V2 ]
“ We'll stop the Orange escort with powder and with ball
We'll shoot the coach to pieces, we'll down the peelers all
We'll lift the diggers' money, we'll collar all their gold
So mind your guns are killers now, my comrades true and bold “
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[ CHORUS : ]
You can sing of Johnny Gilbert,
Dan Morgan and Ben Hall
But the bold and reckless Gardiner,
He's the boy to beat them all
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[ V3 ]
So now off go the rifles the battle has begun
The escort started running boys all in the setting sun
The robbers seized their plunder so saucy and so bold
And they're riding from Eugowra Rocks encumbered with their gold
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[ CHORUS : ]
You can sing of Johnny Gilbert,
Dan Morgan and Ben Hall
But the bold and reckless Gardiner,
He's the boy to beat them all
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[ V4 ]
And as with savage laughter they left that fatal place
They cried "We've struck bonanza boys, we've won the steeplechase ! "
And Gardiner their leader, he shouted out, " Hooray,
I think we've won our fortunes at Eugowra Rocks today"
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[ CHORUS : ]
You can sing of Johnny Gilbert,
Dan Morgan and Ben Hall
But the bold and reckless Gardiner,
He's the boy to beat them all
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from Convicts and Bushrangers, track released November 20, 2019
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The Queensland Tiger covers traditional Australian ballads mainly from 19C.: e.g. Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Breaker Morant, Charles Thatcher, etc…. true to the original works.
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