Van Diemens Land
Van Diemens Land

Van Diemens Land easy guitar chords by Christy Moore

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    • Verse 1
    Me 
    and three 
    more went 
    out one 

    night 
    in
    to the 
    Squire's 
    Park 

    We 
    were 
    hoping 
    that we'd 
    get some 

    game 
    the 
    night it 
    being 
    dark 

    To our 
    sad misfor
    tune 
    they 

    cap
    tured 
    us with 
    speed 

    And 
    they brought 
    us down 
    to 
    War
    wick 
    jail 

    It 
    caused 
    our hearts to 
    bleed 

    Young Men 
    all 
    be 
    aware, 

    lest you 
    be 
    drawn into 
    a snare 

    Come 
    Monday 
    morning 
    at 

    the 
    court we 
    did appear 

    Like 
    Job we 
    stood with 
    pa

    tience 
    our 
    sen
    tence 
    to 
    hear 

    No 
    jury, 
    bail nor 
    witness 

    our 
    case 
    it did go 
    hard 

    Our 
    sentence 
    was 
    for 
    four

    teen 
    years straight 
    away 

    Being 
    sent 
    on 
    board 

    The 
    ship that 
    bore us 
    from the 

    land the 
    Speed
    well 
    was her 
    name 

    For 
    full five 
    months 
    and 
    upward

    s we 
    ploughed 
    the ragin' 
    main 

    We 
    saw no 
    land nor 
    har

    bour 
    I 
    tell you 
    it's no 
    lie 

    All 
    around 
    us one 
    Black 
    Ocean 
    above us 

    one Blue 
    Sky 

    About the 
    Fifth 
    of August 
    its 

    then that 
    we made 
    land 

    And 
    at 
    5 o'clock 
    next 
    morning 

    they 
    tied us 
    hand to 
    hand 

    To 
    see 
    our fellow 
    suf
    ferance, 

    it 
    filled me 
    heart with 
    woe 

    There's 
    some chained 
    to 
    the 
    har
    row 
    and 

    others 
    to the 
    plough 

    To see 
    our fellow 
    suf
    ferance 

    filled me 
    with despair 

    They'd 
    leather smocks 
    and 

    Lindsay shorts 
    their 
    feet 

    And hands were 
    bare 

    They 
    tied them 
    up 
    two by 

    two like 
    horses 
    in 
    a 
    dray 

    And 
    the ganger 
    he 
    stood 
    over 
    them 
    with 
    his 

    Malacca cane 

    There was 
    a female 
    ser
    vant 

    there Ros
    anna 
    was 
    her name 

    For 
    16 years 
    a 
    con
    vict 
    from 

    Wolverhampton 
    came 

    She 
    of
    ten 
    told 
    her 
    tale of 
    love when 

    she was 
    young at 
    home 

    Now its 
    rattling 
    of her 
    chains 
    in a 
    foreign 

    land 
    to 
    roam 

    So, 
    come all 
    of you young 
    poach
    ing 

    lads and 
    a 
    warning 
    take from 
    me 

    Mark you 
    well the 
    story 
    that I 
    tell 

    and 
    guard your 
    destiny 

    It's 
    all 
    about trans
    ported 
    lads as 

    you must 
    under
    stand 

    The hardships 
    we 
    did undergo 
    going 
    to Van 

    Diemen's 
    land 


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