|
|
|
- 390,531 lyrics
- 24,313 artists
|
|
|
Lyrics for Female Transport by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Female Transport | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 151 | | | | Lyrics: | Female Transport
Came all young girls both far and near and listen unto me
While
unto you I do relate what proved my destiny
Me mother died when I was young which caused me to
deplore
And made me find me way too soon all on me native shore
Sarah Collins is me
name and dreadful is me fate
Me father reared me tenderly the truth I do relate
Til
enticed by bad company along with many more
Which led to my discovery all on me native
shore.
Me trial it approached fast, before the judge I stood
And when that he the
sentence passed it fairly chilled me blood
crying
You must be transported for fourteen
years or more
And make haste without delay unto Van Diemen's shore.
It hurt me heart
when in the coach me native town passed by
To see so many I did know it fairly made me
cry
Then to the ship I went with speed along with many more
Whose aching hearts did grieve
to go
all on Van Dieman's shore.
They chained us two by two and whipped and lashed
us all along
They cut off our provisions if we did the least thing wrong
They march us in
the burning sun until our feet are sore
So hard our lot now we have got all on Van Dieman's
shore.
We labor hard from morn til night until our bones do ache
Then everyone we
must obey our mouldy beds to make.
We often wish when we lie down that we might rise no
more
To face our savage Governors all on Van Dieman's shore.
So come young men and
maidens a warning take by me
If tongue could tell our overthrow
t'would make your hearts
to bleed.
You girls I pray be ruled by me, your wicked ways give o'er
For fear you end
your days like me all on Van Dieman's shore
@outlaw @Australia
After the loss of the
American colonies, the British government
was at a loss to know what to do with its convicts.
And so penal
Settlements were created in Australia. The most trivial offenses
were enough
to ensure transportation there for seven years,
fourteen years, or for life. Many songs were
written around this
theme. Most of them dealing with men. Here the women's voice is
heard.
Recorded by Frankie Armstrong
filename[ FEMTRANS
SF
===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY | | | |
 Reddit
|
|
More Unknown Lyrics:
|
|
|
