The Life of Ned Kelly by 6W
Born in the Southern State of Vic; his last day was there too
The Kellys worked together but they started with no clue.
Red Kelly died a broken man, leaving Ned alone,
Young Ned was next in line to take his poor father’s throne.
(Catie & Bri)
Red Kelly, Ned’s old Dad, started out in
jail,
But then he moved to Melbourne to use a
hammer and a nail.
Ned was just like his Dad, stealing to
survive;
Panning, sheering, boxing, cutting –
just to stay alive.
(Trent
& Luka)
Ned Kelly was brought up wrong by a
criminal,
He killed a few policemen though that
was minimal.
Ned Kelly and his gang were very deadly
men.
Good thing he’s not around because that
was way back then!
(Leah)
Ned’s gang got together, to plan their coming
skip
He thought they were desperate; all they
wanted was this trip.
They fought the chief with all their
grief, for all they knew was crime
Ned, Dan, Steve and Joe were running out
of time.
(Maddy
& Claudia)
His heavy armour shimmers in the dark
night sky.
With his heavy coat of mail, he will
never die.
Down into the village you can hear him
clash and clang.
He thought that iron shield would never
let him hang.
(Edgar
& Kai)
Ned Kelly was a brave man in his Armour made of tin.
Then he strode around Glenrowan town
like a walking bin.
With his chest plate and his helmet like
a big black shield.
He thought his Iron mail would stop him
getting killed.
(Thomas,
Ryan & Tyler)
The next planned robbery was the Bank of
New South Wales,
He would never give up and never ever
fail.
For robbery and violence, Ned was thrown
in jail,
He fought single handed dressed in iron
mail.
(Carla
& Alice)
The squatters followed Ned Kelly to
Glenrowan close behind
He ran into a wood shack, so he was hard
to find
Ned Kelly fought the troopers, but the
wood shack got burnt down
One of them got behind him and shot him
out of town
(Steph,
Grace & Lauren)
When the Kelly Gang heard the train
arrive they knew their plan had failed,
All they could do was stay alive and try
not to get jailed.
Ned Kelly was covered in black armour
from head down to his waist,
But his knees were vulnerable to the
troopers who gave him a lead taste.
(Luke
& Liam)
Famous for it bloodiness, a great Aussie
battle,
It started from stealing from rich
blokes – gold, horses and cattle.
They took over Glenrowan Inn and threw a
huge bash.
Tom was after the reward for the Kelly’s
were made of cash.
(Adam
& Sean)
Ned was hiding at the back of the old
town house,
He sat there with his gang of thieves,
as quiet as a mouse.
The police came in plentiful and quickly
closed in;
Ned stumbled out wearing his old rusty
tin.
Ned Kelly, oh he tried to run away and
flee,
But unfortunately he was sadly shot in
the knee.
Ned Kelly, oh it wasn’t fair, he was so
very young.
But sadly he was an outlaw, and so he
swung.
(Patrick
& Riley)
Ned Kelly went to court and asked for
mercy there,
The judge didn’t buy it and gave him
quite a scare.
He had nothing else to do until he got
hung,
He was put on the podium and up there he
was strung.
(Renae)
Ned Kelly lost all those he loved the
day that he got caught,
The day Ned got shot in the knee was the
day that that he got taught.
The judge gave Ned a sentence that would
leave him scared and stung,
Ned Kelly said his final words the day
the he was hung.
(Rachel
& Ella)
Ned Kelly was a criminal before he got
hung
Ned Kelly laid like a puppet before he’d
gotten strung
Ned Kelly laid under the ground before
he turned to bones
Now he lays quiet and still underneath
the stones.
(Nik
& Tom)
