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'Tis of a wild Colonial boy, Jack Doolan was his name, / Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine. / He was his father's only hope, his mother's only joy, / And dearly did his parents love the wild Colonial boy.
Chorus / Come, all my hearties, we'll roam the mountains high, / Together we will plunder, together we will die. / We'll wander over valleys, and gallop over plains, / And we'll scorn to live in slavery, bound down with iron / chains.