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Van Diemen's Land / The Blarney Pilgrim

from It's Cold by the Door by Gordon Jackson

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VAN DIEMEN’S LAND

Come, all you gallant poachers
That ramble free from care
That walk out of a moonlight night
With your dog your gun and snare
Where the lusty hare and pheasant
You have at your command
Not thinking that your last career
Is on Van Diemen’s Land

There was poor Tom Brown from Nottingham
Jack Williams, and poor Joe
Were three as daring poachers
As the country well does know
At night they were trepanned
By the keepers hid in sand
And for fourteen years transported were
Unto Van Diemen’s Land

Oh when that we were landed
Upon that fatal shore
The planters they came flocking round
Full twenty score or more
They ranked us up like horses
And sold us out of hand
They yoked us to the plough my boys
To plough Van Diemen’s Land

Come all you gallant poachers
Give ear unto my song
It is a bit of good advice
Although it is not long
Lay by your dog and snare
To you I do speak plain
If you knew the hardships we endure
You ne’er would poach again

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from It's Cold by the Door, released April 11, 2011

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