Lyrics:
pheasant you will have at your command
Not thinking on your last career spent on Van Diemen's Land
Young Thomas Brown from Nenagh town Jack Murphy and poor
Hold me now,
Oh hold me now
'Til this hour
Has gone around
And I'm gone
On the rising tide
For to face
Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill
Hold me now
Oh hold me now
'Til this hour
Has gone around
And I'm gone
On the rising tide
For to face
Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill
Hold me now, oh hold me now
'Til this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill I swallow
and pheasant you have at your command
Not thinking on your last career upon Van Diemen's Land
Twas poor Jack Brown from Glasgow, Will Guthrie and Munro
They
you realize, is
You've landed in Van Diemen's land
Her eyes, they shone like the diamonds
You will think she was queen of the land
And her hair hung
young fellow, the case against you is quite clear
For seven long years is your sentence. You're going to Van Diemen's Land"
Far away from my friends
Hold me now
Oh hold me now
'Til this hour
Has gone around
And I'm gone
On the rising tide
For to face
Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill
I swallow
claimed the jewellery
And the case against us was clear
For seven years' transportation
Right down to Van Diemen's land
Far away from my friends
delayed
I'd count them on my hand
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land
If certain, when this life was out
That yours and mine should
Well, I lost my home and fortune
People think I'm round the bend
Now I'm a dirty beggar
Wailing in Van Diemen's Land
And all the money that some
'Til you are unable to stand
And the very first thing that you'll know is
You've landed in Van Diemens Land
Her eyes they shown like diamonds
Her
'Til you are unable to stand
And the very first thing that you'll know is
You've landed in Van Diemens Land
Her eyes they shown like diamonds
Her
Well, I've drunk to drown, on every ocean I've been
Lake Tanganyika, where the crocodiles swim
Halifax, Nova Scotia to Van Diemen's land
Well, I
Well, I've drunk to drown, on every ocean I've been
Lake Tanganyika, where the crocodiles swim
Halifax, Nova Scotia to Van Diemen's land
Well, I
aquesta hora ja ha mort
i amb la nit haja de marxat
a enfrontar a Van Diemen's Land.
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maid
Who stole some bread to feed a hungry man
A year in jail for the time she strayed
She could have been sent to Van Diemen's Land
People of every
He stole two pigs that was his crime, he was barely just a man
A convict on a prison ship bound for Van Diemen's Land
He yearned hard for his
was back home in Derry
Oh, oh, I wish I was back home in Derry
Van Diemen's land is a hell for a man
To end out his whole life in slavery
Where
alone in Van Diemen's Land
It's looking like you left me with no choice
Utter confidence in a low voice
All the noise and so much to say
I'd love a word
were tied up with a band
And I saw a sign on the ship's side
A sign that said "Van Diemen's Land"
I don't understand just what happened
But here as I
the Lord took her hand
I was four years transported
to Van Diemen's Land
I roam through the hillside
I roam through the trees
A ghost in the forest
pray you
wish I was back home in Derry
Oh Oh Oh Oh
I wish I was back home in Derry
Van Diemen's Land is a hell for a man
To live out his whole life in slavery
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemens land.
If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like
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