George Palmer I To Sergeant Babbington from his song cycle Letters From A Black Snake (2007) I

Letters From A Black Snake

(Extracts from the original letters of Ned Kelly)

I. To Sergeant Babington
(written when Ned Kelly was 15)

I write you these lines hoping to find you and Missus Nicholson in good health as I am myself at present.

I have arrived safe and I would like you to see what you and Missus Nicholson could do for me?

I have done all circumstances would allow me which you now try what you can do.

Answer this letter as soon as possible.
Direct your letter to Daniel Kelly, Greta Post Office, that is my name.
No more at present.

Edward Kelly

Everyone looks at me like a black snake.
Answer me as soon as possible.

next song: II They Know I Have Been Wronged
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George Palmer (b.1947)
http://georgepalmer.com.au/index.html
is the composer of - amongst many other works - the mass "Benedictus Qui Venit" which was commissioned by the Archdiocese of Sydney for the visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Australia for World Youth Day 2008. This composition was performed at the papal mass at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney in front of 250,000 people and seen by millions around the world on international television.

George Palmer has composed a song cycle "Letters From A Black Snake" setting five extracts from the original letters of Ned Kelly, Australia's most notorious criminal of the 19th century.
Kelly was hanged in Melbourne Gaol in 1880 and has become an important part of Australian folklore.

The world premier of this cycle has been broadcast on 2MBS FM in Sydney and in June 2009 on ABC Classic FM

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