Jack Mancor: Music

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Buckley’s Chance Jack Mancor

Ran away from the Calcutta, and headed around the bay
A week of fear and hunger, then the other boys went their own way
I took a gamble that being free in this wild land
Would be better than being a convict under a tyrant rulers hand

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You’ve got Buckley’s chance they’ll say
Gonna be a dead man in a couple of days
Go run as far as you can
‘cause with Buckley’s chance you’re as good as a dead man

Spent a long time combing down by Corio beach
Trying to find shelter and some food to eat
Met a tribe of Aboriginals and they took me in
They thought I was reincarnated, just with white skin

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Days and months and years went by, I can’t tell
But I was hunting, I was gathering, I was living well
I grew tired of the savage and bloody fights all the time
Tried to keep the peace and a civilized mind

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And then Captain Batman sailed into Port Phillip Bay
And I went back to living like a savage the British way
I’ve survived and I’ve made it here, I’m in Van Diemons Land
Just don’t ask me which ones the more civilized man

You’ve got Buckley’s chance they said
But I took a chance and I ain’t dead
You’ve got Buckley’s chance they’ll say
But I might just come walking down the beach some day

You’ve got Buckley’s chance they’ll say…