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Van Dieman's Land chords by 
Ewan Maccoll
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Verse 1
Am
G
Am
G
Now come all you wild and wicked youths,
Em
G
Am
wheresoever you may be
G
Am
I pray now pay at tention
C
G
Am
and listen unto me
G
Am
C
The fatal awful transports as
Em
Am
you shall understand
G
The hardships they do undergo upon
Em
Am
Van Diemon's Land.
Verse 2
Am
My parents reared me tenderly,
G
Em
Am
good learning they give to me
G
Am
'Til all my bad companions
C
Em
Am
beguiled my home from me
G
Am
I was brought up in Worcestershire,
C
Em
Am
near to the town did dwell
G
my name is Henry Abbott,
Em
G
Am
and many knows me well.
Verse 3
Am
Me and three more went out one
G
Em
Am
night to Squire Daniel's farm
G
Am
To get some game was our intent
C
Em
Am
as the night come falling down
G
Am
But to our sad misfortune,
C
Em
Am
they took us there with speed
G
They sent us off to Warwick jail
Em
Am
which made our hearts to bleed.
Verse 4
Am
It was at the March assizes,
G
Em
G
Am
at the bar we did ap pear
Like Job we stood with patience
C
Em
Am
to hear our sentence there
G
Am
And being some old offenders,
C
G
Am
it made our case go hard
G
Our sentence were for fourteen years,
Em
Am
and we were sent on board.
Verse 5
Am
G
Em
The ship that bore us from the land,
G
Em
Am
the Speedwell was her name
And for four months and a half we
Em
C
G
Am
plowed across the raging main
D
G
Am
No land or harbor could we see,
C
Em
Am
and believe it is no lie
G
For around us one black water
Em
G
and above us one blue sky.
Am
Verse 6
G
I oft- times look behind me to
Em
G
Am
wards my native shore
G
Am
And that cottage of contentment
C
Em
Am
that I shall see no more
G
Am
Likewise my aged father,
C
G
Am
Em
who tore his hoary hair
Am
G
Also my tender mother
Em
G
Am
whose arms once did me bear.
Verse 7
Am
It was on the fourth of July,
G
Em
G
Am
the day we made the land
G
Am
At four o'clock we went on shore,
C
Am
all chain and hand in hand
D
G
Am
And to see our fellow sufferers,
C
G
Am
I fear I can't tell how
G
Some chained unto a harrow,
Em
G
Em
and some unto a plow.
Am
Verse 8
G
So we were marched in to the town
Em
Am
without no more delay
G
Am
And there a gentleman took me,
C
G
Am
a bookkeeper for to be
G
Am
I took my occupation,
C
G
Am
my master likes me well
G
Am
G
My joys are out of measure,
Em
G
I'm sure no one can tell.
Am
Verse 9
He kept a female servant,
G
Am
Rosanna was her name
For fourteen years a convict,
C
G
Am
from Worcestershire she came
G
Am
We oft- times tell our love tales there where
G
Am
Em
we are so far from home
Am
For now we're rattling of our
G
Em
Am
chains in foreign lands to roam.
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