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Frank Gardiner Is Caught At Last by John Meredith
Frank Gardiner Is Caught At Last
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Oh Frank Gardiner is caught at last and lies in Sydney jail,
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For wounding Sergeant Middleton and robbing the Mudgee mail.
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For plundering of the gold escort, the Carcoar mail also;
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And it was for gold he made so bold, and not so long ago.
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His daring deeds surprised them all throughout the Sydney land,
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And on his friends he gave a call, and quickly raised a band.
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And fortune always favoured him, until this time of late,
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Until Ben Hall and Gilbert met with their dreadful fate.
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Farewell, adieu, to outlawed Frank, he was the poor man's friend.
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The Government secured him, the laws he did offend.
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He boldly stood his trial and answered in a breath,
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'And do what you will, you can but kill; I have no fear of death!'
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Day after day they remanded him, escorted from the bar,
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Fresh charges brought against him from neighbours near and far,
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And now it is all over; the sentence they have passed,
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All sought to find a verdict, and 'Guilty' 'twas at last.
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Young Vane, he has surrendered, Ben Hall's got his death wound,
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And as for Johnny Gilbert, near Binalong was found,
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was all alone and lost his horse, three troopers came in sight,
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And fought the three most manfully, got slaughtered in the fight.
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When lives you take, a warning boys, a woman never trust:
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She'll turn round, I will be bound, Queen's evidence, the first.
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He's doing two-and-thirty years; he's doomed to served the Crown,
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And well may he say, he cursed the day he met with Mrs Brown.
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