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Ballad about transportation to Australia.
Violin by Sharon Sullivan.

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Convict Maid
(Traditional)
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[ V1 ]
You lads and lassies all attend to me
I relate my tale of misery
Through hopeless love was I once betrayed
Now I am, alas, a convict maid
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[ V2 ]
To please my lover did I try so sore
That I spent upon him all my master's store
In his anger did so loud upbraid
He brought before the judge this convict maid
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[ V3 ]
The judge’s sentence then to me addressed
Which filled with agony my aching breast,
“ To Botany Bay you must be conveyed
For seven long years to be a convict maid ”
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[ V4 ]
For seven long years I’ve toiled in pain and grief
And I curse the day that I became a thief
Had I stuck by some honest trade
I ne’er would have become a convict maid.
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from Convicts and Bushrangers, track released November 20, 2019
Traditional
Violin by Sharon Sullivan.

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The Queensland Tiger

The Queensland Tiger covers traditional Australian ballads mainly from 19C.: e.g. Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Breaker Morant, Charles Thatcher, etc…. true to the original works.
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