there was a wild colonial boy jack duggan was his name he was born and raised in ireland in a place called castle maine he was his father s only son his mother s pride and joy and dearly did his parents love the wild colonial boy at the early age of sixteen years jack left his native home and to australia s sunny shores he was inclined to roam he robbed the rich he helped the poor he shot james mcevoy a terror to australia wsa the wild colonial boy one morning on the prarie as jack he rode along and listening to the mosckingbird sing it s joyful song up came a band of troopers kelly davis and fitzroy they d all set out to capture him the wild colonial boy surrender now jack duggan for you see we re three to one surrender in the queen s high name for you are a plundering son jack drew two pistols from his belt and proudly waved them high i ll fight but not surrender said the wild colonial boy he fired a shot at kelly which laid him to the groud and turning round to davis he received a fatal wound a bullet pierced the fierce young heart from the pistol of fitzroy and that was how they captured him the wild colonial boy
['canadian celtic', 'celtic', 'irish folk', 'irish pub song', 'shanty']