Game As Ned Kelly

Game As Ned Kelly - Slim Dusty

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 'that 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