Me and three more went out one
night in to the Squire's Park
We were hoping that we'd get some
game the night it being dark
To our sad misfortune they
captured us with speed
And they brought us down to Warwick jail
It caused our hearts to bleed
Young Men all be aware,
lest you be drawn into a snare
Come Monday morning at
the court we did appear
Like Job we stood with pa
tience our sentence to hear
No jury, bail nor witness
our case it did go hard
Our sentence was for four
teen years straight away
Being sent on board
The ship that bore us from the
land the Speedwell was her name
For full five months and upward
s we ploughed the ragin' main
We saw no land nor har
bour I tell you it's no lie
All around us one Black Ocean above us
one Blue Sky
About the Fifth of August its
then that we made land
And at 5 o'clock next morning
they tied us hand to hand
To see our fellow sufferance,
it filled me heart with woe
There's some chained to the harrow and
others to the plough
To see our fellow sufferance
filled me with despair
They'd leather smocks and
Lindsay shorts their feet
And hands were bare
They tied them up two by
two like horses in a dray
And the ganger he stood over them with his
Malacca cane
There was a female servant
there Rosanna was her name
For 16 years a convict from
Wolverhampton came
She of ten told her tale of love when
she was young at home
Now its rattling of her chains in a foreign
land to roam
So, come all of you young poaching
lads and a warning take from me
Mark you well the story that I tell
and guard your destiny
It's all about transported lads as
you must understand
The hardships we did undergo going to Van
Diemen's land