Kate Kelly Lyrics - Whitlams

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