There's a name that Australia will never forget,
The best known Australian I'd sure like to bet,
Though granted it's over, dishonoured his name,
Yet one thing is certain, Ned Kelly was game;
Game
as
Ned
Kelly the people would say,
Game
as
Ned
Kelly they say it today.
Oh great was their fame when the Kelly boys rode,
Those daring bushrangers with no fixed abode,
They laughed at the law, a big price on their head,
The troopers could never catch up with wild Ned;
Game
as
Ned
Kelly the people would say,
Game
as
Ned
Kelly they say it today.
They stuck up the stations but never were caught,
But everyone reckons that Ned was a sport,
They captured a township, those bushrangers bold,
Then off to the ranges they rode with the gold;
Game
as
Ned
Kelly the people would say,
Game
as
Ned
Kelly they say it today.
But at last at Glenrowan the Kelly gang fell,
While fighting for life from the burning hotel,
When out came Ned Kelly still blazing away,
'til wounded by troopers he fell in the grey;
Game
as
Ned
Kelly the people would say,
Game
as
Ned
Kelly they say it today.
And so to the gallows the outlaw was led,
Now
die
like
a
Kelly his mother had said,
A
fate
such
is
life the bold bushranger sighed,
The trapdoor sprang open and Ned Kelly died;
Game
as
Ned
Kelly the people would say,
Game
as
Ned
Kelly they say it today.
And so young Australians take heed of this song,
Be game as you like but don't do any wrong,
Remember the warning âthat crime doesn't pay',
Remember Ned Kelly and walk the straight way;
Game
as
Ned
Kelly the people would say,
Game
as
Ned
Kelly they say it today.
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