Outlaw Frank Gardiner

Lyrics

Well Frank Gardiner he is caught at last he lies in Sydney gaol For wounding Sergeant Middleton and robbing the Mudgee Mail For plundering of the gold escort the Carcoar Mail also And it was for gold he made so bold and not so long ago His daring deeds surprised them all throughout the Sydney land And on his friends he paid a call and he quickly raised a band And fortune's always favoured him until that time of late Until Ben Hall and Gilbert met with their dreadful fate Young Vane he has surrendered Ben Hall's got his death wound And as for Johnny Gilbert nеar Binalong was found He was there with Dunn thеy were on the run when the troopers came in sight Dunn wounded ran but the other man got slaughtered in the fight Farewell, adieu to outlaw Frank, he was the poor man's friend The government has secured him for it's laws he did offend He boldly stood his trial and he answered with a breath Do what you will you can but kill, and I have no fear of death Day after day they remanded him, escorted from the bar Fresh charges brought against him from neighbours near and far And now it is all over and the sentence they have passed All sought to find a verdict and 'guilty' was at last When lives you take a warning boys no woman ever trust She will turn round I will be bound, Queen's evidence the first He's doing two and thirty years, he's doomed to serve the crown And well may he say, he rues the day he met with Kitty Brown