Well they hanged us in the morning from the gallows right outside In the year of our lord 1875 And we’ll tell you now the story of how it came to be That such a lovely bunch of lads lost life and liberty – (hey)
Well they hanged us in the morning from the gallows right outside In the year of our lord 1875 And I’d be lying if I told you I died an honest man But at least I carved my destiny with my own bloody hands
Oh we slaved on these lands and we worked our calloused hands until they bled, but it never fed our kids, our wives, our families So we strayed from the path, from righteousness to His wrath and before long our loaded guns brought all the world at our feet
Well they hanged us in the morning from the gallows right outside In the year of our lord 1875 And I’ll tell you now me mateys, if the lord forgave our sins We’d climb right out these shallow graves and do it all again
We prowled on the plains and we robbed the carts and the trains ‘till they took us down in Darwin town and they sentenced us to hang So they led us onto this scaffold high and as the sunlight pierced the morning sky, though we’ll burn, we left this world with a smile upon our face