Kate Kelly

So you just keep on drinking, and you try to forget

How they strung up Joe Byrne, to the jail house door

He looked just like a marionette

He was dead for two days, and I'll tell you no lies

With the press still around him, making their money

Shooting postcards of him through the flies

Close your eyes Kate, and I'll sing you to sleep

Close your eyes, your dreams will be sweet

Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly, I'm gonna sing you to sleep

Ned rose up, through the mist man, made of iron

Fighting his way to the smouldering inn

Where Joe and his brother are dying

They had to shoot out his legs Kate, and if you could sleep

You could forget the way they cut off his head

For the warden's paperweight

Close your eyes Kate, and I'll sing you to sleep

Close your eyes, your dreams will be sweet

Don't linger around here, may your soul rest in peace

Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly, I'm gonna sing you to sleep

Now you do horse tricks, in a wild west show

Sharp shooting Kate, the last of the Kellys

Now the queen of a rodeo

Was Joe your lover? Did he send you some word?

A friend to your brothers, all the way to the end

Where as brothers in arms, they would fall

Close your eyes Kate, and I'll sing you to sleep

Close your eyes, your dreams will be sweet

Don't linger around here, may your soul rest in peace

Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly, I'm gonna sing you to sleep

Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly, I'm gonna sing you to sleep

You just keep on drinking, and you try to forget

How they strung up Joe Byrne, to the jail house door

Like a marionette