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Cap'N Thunderbolt

Cap’n Thunderbolt

The moon stood out 
Any traps about  
Cap’n Thunderbolt did ask
He was on the road again 
Brown snake for break-in-fast

The Drover said they went way north 
Blacktracker with em eh
Following your week old tracks, old mate
When you robbed the coach and dray

So back over his tracks he cantered then
And followed the Traps all day
Just to confuse the Tracker 
To make him earn his pay

He left Beeswing in a paddock
And rode old Combo today
These horses were good racing stock
Fast horse flesh to gallop away

Combo’s tracks weren’t known yet 
By the tracker on his trail
And friends were hiding, not to fret
More racing blood I say

He crossed the border at Hebel
And worked horse breaking for pay
Currawillinghi had him on the books
For months fore he rode away

Some say he was shot by Constable Walker 
Near Uralla on an 1870 day
Others say shot was his uncle
To the US he sailed away

Don Johnson

Fred Ward was Thunderbolt  his statue is at Uralla
There is some doubt if he died or not when with the Traps he shot it out. An 1871 American
state census shows that a Frederick Ward (file #SC 289) and a Sarah Shepherd (file #SC
319) both arrived in America in late 1870. This seems to be an amazing coincidence

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 4/23/2011 10:51:00 AM
another wonderful piece of history in rhyme
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