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A Nautical Yarn
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I sing of a captain not unknown to fame. A naval commander Bill inks was his name. He sailed where the Murray's green waters do flow did this freshwater shellback with a yo heave a yo,
Derry Down Down, Down Derry Down.
Oh captain O captain lets make for the shore for the winds they do rage and the winds they do roar. Nay said the captain though fierce winds do blow I'll stick to my vessel with a yo heave a yo,
Derry Down Down, Down Derry Down.
Oh Captain Oh Captain the waves sweep the deck Oh captain Oh captain we'll soon be a wreck. To the rivers deep bosom each seaman will go but the captain laughed lightly with a yo heave a yo,
Derry Down Down, Down Derry Down.
Farewell to the maiden the girl I adore.
Farewell to my friends I shall see you no more.
Derry Down Down,
Derry Down Down...
and so on on and on....
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Botany Bay
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Farewell to old England Forever. Farewell to my rumskulls as well. Farewell to the well known Old Bailey. Where I used for to have such a swell.
Singing toorali-oorali adiity. Singing toorali oorali-ay. Toorali-oorali adiity. We're bound for Botany Bay.
Taint leavin old England we cares about. Taint cause we misspells what we knows. And just because all you light fingered gentry, ops around with a log on your toes.
Singing toorali-oorali adiity. Singing toorali oorali-ay. Toorali-oorali adiity. We're bound for Botany Bay.
Singing toorali-oorali adiity. Toorali oorali-ay. Toorali-oorali adiity. We're bound for Botany Bay.
So take warning.
If I had the wings of a turtle dove. I'd soar on my pinions so high. Slap bang into the arms of my honey love and in her sweet presence I'd die.
Toorali-oorali adiity. Toorali oorali-ay. Toorali-oorali adiity. We're bound for Botany Bay.
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As I went strolling one evening not meaning to go very far. I spied a pretty young damsel parading her wares in a bar. A watch she took from a customer and she slipped it right into my hand and the law came and put me in prison bad luck to the Black Velvet Band.
Her eyes they shone like diamonds and you'd think she was queen of the land. Her hair hung over her shoulders tied up with a Black Velvet Band.
She was queen.
Next morning before judge and jury for trial I had to appear. And the judge said me fine young fellow well the case against you is quite clear. For seven long years is your sentence and you're going to Van Diemans Land away from your friends and relations to follow the Black Velvet Band.
And her eyes they shone like diamonds and you'd think she was queen of the land. Her hair hung over her shoulders tied up.
Tied up.
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Moreton Bay
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Henry's Downfall
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Come all you wild and wicked youths wherever you may be,
I pray you pay attention and listen unto me.
The fate of us poor transports as you shall understand
The hardships that they undergo upon Van Diemen's Land.
I and five more went one night to a Squires park
In expectation of some game the night the night being so dark
But to our great misfortune we they trepanned us with ease
And they sent us to Lancaster jail which made our hearts to bleed
It was at the March assizes we then, we did repair
Like Job we stood with patience to hear our sentence there
My being with old offenders my case it did go hard
And my sentence was for fourteen years I was quickly sent on board
The ship on which we sailed well now the Speedwell it was her name,
For full five months and longer boys we sped the foaming main.
Neither land nor harbour did we see, I tell you its no lie,
All around us one black water, all above us one blue sky.
The first day that we landed upon that fateful shore,
The settlers came around us being twenty forty score or more,
They lined us up like horses and sold us out of hand,
and they roped us to the ploughing frame to plough Van Diemen's Land.
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Ten Thousand Miles Away
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Botany Bay Courtship
05:11
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Wide is His Blow
06:27
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Gather round you sailor boys
And listen to my plea now boys
When you hear my tale you'll pity me.
I was a goddam stupid fool
All in the port of Liverpool
When first I came home from the sea.
It's well I do remember the day
When first i met Maggie May
A-cruisin' up and down old Canning Place
She wore a figure Oh so fine
Just like a ringer on the line
And me, a sailor well, I gave her chase
CHORUS
Maggie Maggie Maggie May
They've taken you so far away
To slave upon that ol' Van Diemens shore
You've robbed so many sailors
And dosed so many whalers
That you'll never see old Lime Street any more
In the morning when I woke
My heart it was so sad and broke
No shirt, trousers or waistcoat could I find
And when I asked her where the were
She answered me 'well young Sir'
They're down at Stanley's Hock Shop number nine.
So to the hock shop I did go
But no clothes could they show
So the bobbies came and took that girl away
The jury guilty found her
For robbing me a sailor
And they paid her passage out to Botany Bay
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Bush Gothic Melbourne, Australia
BBC Music Magazine - 5 STARS, World Music Albums of the year 2016,
fRoots Album of the Year 2016: Runner
Up. Adelaide Fringe Festival Best Music Weekly Award 2017 & 2018. Defiantly modern, achingly old, Bush Gothic re-imagine songs of heartbreak and tragedy amongst convicts, desperate miners and criminal women.
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