Death of Captain Logan

traditional Australian folk song

Sometimes known as Moreton Bay or its full title The Convicts Lament on the Death of Captain Logan.
Sometimes known as Moreton Bay or its full title The Convicts Lament on the Death of Captain Logan. Logan was a military captain in charge of convicts that had been sent to Australia between 1825 and 1830. He was killed by Aborigines in 1830 while surveying the Upper Brisbane river. This song was possibly written by Frank McNamara, commonly known as Frank the Poet.
There is another verse however which goes as follows:
I've been a prisoner at Port McQuarrie, at Norfolk Island and Emu Plains, at Castle Hill and (cursed) Toongabbie, at all these settlements I've worked in chains. But of all the places of condemnation and penal stations of New South Wales, to Moreton Bay, I have found no equal, excessive tyranny each day prevails.
At the time this song was written, lyrics were sung to a range of tunes, usually popular tunes of the era, from music hall or popular folk songs that everybody knew and broadsheets with lyrics printed on them would be sold with the line 'sung to the tune of . . . ' printed across the top. Often several sets of words would refer to the same tune. This tune is based on Boolavogue written by Patrick Joseph McCall around 1898) to celebrate the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and so was well known and popular with the Irish, especially associated with dissention of authority.