Cifra de Freedom Fighters - Les Thomas
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Capo 2
[Verse 1]
C F C
Do you know the names of the first men hanged here in Melbourne town?
C Em FMaj7
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner wouldn't bow before the crown
C F C
In January 1842, 5000 stood on Bowen Street
Am G FMaj7
With a twisted sense of justice amid the cheeers, dust and heat
[Verse 2]
C F C
Far from their ancestral homes down in Van Diemen’s Land
C Em FMaj7
They knew their lives would be in vain if they didn’t take a stand
C F C
Tunnerminnerwait’s first memory was the slaughter of his kin
Am G FMaj7
When the war of dispossession landed at Cape Grim
[Verse 3]
C F C
Maulboyheenner would have led his clan had he ever got the chance
C Em FMaj7
And he saw all the bloody suffering of the settlers' advance
C F C
While the red coats and the convicts tried to wipe us out with lead
Am G FMaj7
They sent their Black Line across the Island saying no one would be spared
[Chorus]
C FMaj7
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
Am G FMaj7
Your names will be remembered
[Verse 4]
C F C
The warriors went with Robinson on the Friendly Mission trail
C Em FMaj7
Spreading word among the people to survive we must set sail
C F C
Now so many lie in unmarked graves on the Flinders Island shore
Am G FMaj7
Wwe struggle to remember what was friendly anymore
[Verse 5]
C F C
Sixteen when with Robinson to the Port Philip colony
C Em FMaj7
Were they called him Chief Protector of Aborigines
C F C
And they helped with making contact where no white men had been
Am G FMaj7
Five of them lost faith in “protection” ‘cause of the living hell they’d seen
[Verse 6]
C F C
The spirit of resistance could no longer be suppressed
C Em FMaj7
Raiding stations across Western Port, as history will attest
C F C
With no harm to women or children, over an eight week long campaign
Am G FMaj7
And they issued out an arsenal as they set fire to the grain
[Chorus]
C FMaj7
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
Am G FMaj7
Your names will be remembered
[Verse 7]
C F C
At a gun fight in Cape Paterson the miner Watson’s son got hit
C Em FMaj7
And they were surely out to kill them, because they never could permit
C F C
Any reclaiming of the land they stole from the native dispossessed
Am G FMaj7
So they sent out every trooper, horse and tracker to put us to the nest
[Verse 8]
C F C
As they waited for the onslaught, they saw two figures in the dark
C Em FMaj7
But they couldn’t tell they were whalers before the bullets made their mark
C F C
They had every reason to fear men like this with their memories of the past
Am G FMaj7
When the hand that raped and pillaged was the hand that steered the mast
[Verse 9]
C F C
When the troops began their awful siege they fired off every round
C Em FMaj7
By some miracle the five survived as they huddled on the ground
C F C
The three women were acquitted and the men condemned to die
Am G FMaj7
And example must be set, said the judge, lest other rebels try
[Verse 10]
C F C
And as they lay the fighters in the ground they hope their names would quickly fade
C Em FMaj7
But lest we forget the heroes and sacrifice they made
C F C
For they remind us there’s more to do if we’re ever to be free
Am G FMaj7
May the spirit of resistance live on in you and me
[Chorus]
C FMaj7
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
Am G FMaj7
Your names will be remembered
C FMaj7
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
Am G FMaj7
Your names will be remembered
Am G FMaj7
Your names will be remembered