Lyrics
- Come all you Lachlan men and a sorrowful tale I'll tell,
- The story of a decent man who through misfortune fell,
- His name it was Ben Hall, a man of high renown,
- Who was hunted from his station, and like a dog shot down.
- Three years he roamed the roads, and he showed the traps some fun,
- One thousand pounds was on his head, with Gilbert and John Dunn.
- Ben parted from his comrades, the outlaws did agree,
- To give away bushranging and to cross the briny sea.
- Ben went to Goobang Creek, and that was his downfall
- For riddled like a sieve was the valiant Ben Hall,
- 'Twas early in the morning upon the fifth of May
- That the seven police surrounded him as fast asleep they lay.
- Bill Dargin he was chosen to shoot the outlaw dead,
- The troopers then fired madly and they filled him full of lead,
- They rolled him in his blanket and strapped him to his prad,
- And they led him through the streets of Forbes, to show the prize they had.
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