Our Australian friends have songs commemorating some interesting events! Eugowra Rocks, a city Down Under, experienced the biggest gold heist in Australian history. The criminals got away – for a few years – with about £14,000 of the precious metal. That was in 1862, so their haul would be worth millions of dollars today.
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.”
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”.
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