Key: C major•
Verse 1
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Me and three more went out one
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night in to the Squire's Park
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We were hoping that we'd get some
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game the night it being dark
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To our sad misfortune they
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captured us with speed
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And they brought us down to Warwick jail
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It caused our hearts to bleed
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Young Men all be aware,
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lest you be drawn into a snare
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Come Monday morning at
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Like Job we stood with pa
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tience our sentence to hear
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No jury, bail nor witness
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our case it did go hard
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teen years straight away
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Being sent on board
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The ship that bore us from the
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land the Speedwell was her name
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For full five months and upward
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We saw no land nor har
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bour I tell you it's no lie
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All around us one Black Ocean above us
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one Blue Sky
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About the Fifth of August its
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And at 5 o'clock next morning
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they tied us hand to hand
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To see our fellow sufferance,
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it filled me heart with woe
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There's some chained to the harrow and
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others to the plough
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Lindsay shorts their feet
And hands were bare
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They tied them up two by
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two like horses in a dray
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And the ganger he stood over them with his
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Malacca cane
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there Rosanna was her name
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For 16 years a convict from
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She of ten told her tale of love when
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she was young at home
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Now its rattling of her chains in a foreign
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land to roam
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lads and a warning take from me
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Mark you well the story that I tell
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It's all about transported lads as
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you must understand
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The hardships we did undergo going to Van
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Diemen's land
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