My father and others used to sing it here in Australia Just the other year I had to sing it at a lockdown in a pub in Dingle just down the road from Castlemaine and it took a few hours of thirsty discussion to get to an agreed understanding Theres a few different versions and of course all insist theirs is the correct one The one I always heard was    There was a wild colonial boy Jack Doolan was his name Of poor but honest parents   He was born in a Castlemaine He was his fathers only son his mothers pride and joy And dearly did his parents love the wild colonial boy   At the tender age of sixteen years Jack left his native home And to Australias sunny shores a bushranger did roam He robbed the lordly squatters  and mumble something of their toys A terror to Australia was the wild colonial boy  and so on