The London Convict Maid

from Beyond The Pale by Bush Gothic

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lyrics

ou lads and lasses all listen to me
While I relate my tale of misery
By hopeless love was I once betrayed
And now I am, alas, a Convict Maid

To please my lover did I try so sore
That I spent upon him all my master's store
Who in his wrath did loudly me upbraid
And brought before the judge this Convict Maid

The judge his 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."

You lads and lasses all attend to me

For seven long years I toil in pain and grief
And I curse the day that I became a thief
Oh had I stuck by some honest trade
Then I ne'er would be alas a Convict Maid

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from Beyond The Pale, released April 25, 2019
Lyrics Trad. Music by Jenny M. Thomas

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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. ... more

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