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I'D HAVE BEEN A KELLY

I've read the morning papers, and if it's all the same my friend
I don't like your world at all and i'm glad it has to end
I know i'm coming back again, to have another show
But i'd like to take my second chance, a hundred years ago

I,d save poor mad dog morgan,and lead the traps away
He and i together, would have fought another day
We'd comb the bloodwood ridges, where the squatters cattle stray
And jessie james would mail me bullets from the u.s.a.

But i don't think it's likely, it won't quite be that way
I'll just take it easy now, and live day to day
I'll vote and pay my taxes, and heed the master's call
But i'd like to be a kelly, and ride with old ben hall

I'd have been a kelly, i'd have ridden with ben hall
I'd have made a first class starlight, or a wild colonial boy
You'd have shot me at glenrowan, with my back against the wall
I'd have been a kelly and ridden with ben hall

I'd play billiards with o'malley, i'd have took him for his gold
And palmed an ace on gilbert, he's a gambler i've been told
I'd be a mate of pattersons, gone to lawson's house for tea
The world of 1870 would be the world for me
I'd have been a kelly