Van Dieman’s Land

Van Dieman’s Land    Alex Hood


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You ramb-ling boys of li-ver-pool

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Ill have you to be-ware

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When you go a hunt-ing with your dog

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Your gun your snare

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Watch out for the game-keep-er

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Keep your dog at your com-mand

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And think up-on the hard ships go-ing to 

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Van Die-men’s land



2.
We had two irish lads on board 
jimmy Murphy and paddy malone
and they were both the truest mates
that any man could own
the gamekeeper he caught them and 
from old englands’s strand
they were fourteen years transported 
unto van diemans’s land


3.
The minute that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they inspected us full twenty score 
Or more
They led us round like horses and sold us out of hand
They they yoked us to the plow, brave boys, to plow
Van dieman’s land


4.
One night as I lay sleeping all in the hold below
I dreamed oi was in Liverpool
Way back in Marylebone
With my true love beside me and a ug of ale in hand
When I woke quite broken hearted lying off 
Van dieman’s land.!


ENJOY!!