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Jacky Marmon, aka 'Cannibal Jack', was an infamous Pākehā Māori. He was the son of an Irish convict and was born in Sydney. In his twenties he fled a government ship in New Zealand and lived the rest of his days amongst local Maori in Hokianga.

"Marmon's criminal record, his close association with the Maori, his bellicose temperament, and the widespread belief that he had been a cannibal, meant that he was never accepted by the emergent European society. Self-styled leaders of the community, such as Thomas McDonnell and the Wesleyan missionaries, regarded him as an evil influence on both Maori and European societies on the river. Indeed, in later years, Marmon, a short, ruddy-faced man, who invariably wore a top-hat, was the bogeyman with whom errant Hokianga children were threatened." - www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1m14/marmon-john

“That is the last time I put faith in my own race – the Pakehas, henceforth I am Maori in thought, word and deed since among the savages I have found more true faithfulness man to man then in the boasted European; there is no honour in them” - Jacky Marmon.

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*Capo 3rd fret

Em
Content to feast
on man or beast
G
they call him Cannibal Jack

You got the thirst
the grog he make
will put you flat on your back

He liked to fight
he fought to kill
he learned to cover his tracks

Be you warrior
be you sailor
none escape his wrath

Those folk who know
they know to hide
they see the dark top hat

So all you children
get to bed
before the sky turn black

Em D
“Lost faith in
C D
my own race
C D Em
there’s no honour in their hearts
found more truthfulness
of man
in these people of the land”

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from NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SEA SHANTIES Vol II, released June 29, 2015

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