Waylon Jennings - Lonigan's Widow lyrics

Now four jolly troopers from Mansfield town Were sent out to hunt all them Kelly boys down They searched through the wombat for most of a week And they camped on the banks of the Stringybark creek But Lonigan's widow, she's a singing no songs She walks these red hills and she cries all night long They say that Ned Kelly had never done wrong Tell that to Lonigan's widow Early that morning amid laughter and shouting Kennedy and Scanlon they rode out a scouting And left McIntyre to cook up the grub While Lonigan sang at the old washing tub They were cleaning the camp, boiling some tea When up jumped Ned Kelly with his comrades three With a shout and a cry and a crack of a gun Lonigan staggers…and Lonigan's done But Lonigan's widow she's singin' no songs She walks these red hills and she cries all night long They say that Ned Kelly ain't never done wrong But tell that to Lonigan's widow He's crawling, he's crying he's clawing the ground His voice makes a pleading and pitiful sound Of the way that he's dying, nobody will speak When they tell of the glory's on Stringybark creek But Lonigan's widow she sang him no songs She walks these red hills, she cries all night long They say that Ned Kelly ain't never done wrong But tell that to Lonigan's widow So sing of Ned Kelly, the lad of renown The pride of Australia, the scourge of the crown Sing of his bravery and God bless his head And bury the truth as you bury the dead But Lonigan's widow, she's singing no songs She walks these red hills and she cries all night long They say that Ned Kelly ain't never done wrong Ned Kelly, ain't never done wrong Ned Kelly's never done wrong But tell that to Lonigan's widow