Eugowra Rocks
It's all about bold Frank Gardiner with the devil in his eye
He said "We've work before us lads we've got to do or die
So blacken up your
faces before the dead of night
And its over by Eugowra Rocks we'll either
fall or fight"
Chorus
You can sing of Johnny Gilbert Dan Morgan and
Ben Hall
But the bold and reckless Gardiner he's the boy to beat them all
We'll stop the Orange escort with powder and with ball
We'll shoot the
coach to pieces and we'll down the peelers all
We'll lift the diggers' money
we'll collar all their gold
So mind your guns are killers now my comrades
true and bold
So now off go the rifles the battle has begun
The escort
started running boys all in the setting sun
The robbers seized their plunder
so saucy and so bold
And they're riding from Eugowra Rocks encumbered with
their gold
And as with savage laughter they left that fatal place
They cried "We've struck bonanza boys we've won the steeplechase!"
And Gardiner
their leader he shouted a loud "Hooray
I think we've made our fortunes at
Eugowra Rocks today"
Notes
First printed in 1907 in "Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South" by Charles MacAlister as "The Morning of the Fray". This version from the singing of A.L.Lloyd. For another song about Frank Gardiner see 'Frank Gardiner' in this collection. Tune related to 'Shores of Botany Bay' also in this collection.