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Van Dieman's Land

from A Best Of The Dubliners by The Dubliners

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Come all you gallant poachers,
That ramble void of care,
That walk out on a moonlight night
With your dog, your gun and snare.
The harmless hare and pheasant
You have at your command,
Not thinkin' of your last career
Upon Van Dieman's land.

Poor Jackie Brown from Nenagh town, Jack Murphy and poor Joe
Were three determined poachers as the country well does know
By the keepers of the land, my boys, one night they were trepanned
And for fourteen years transported unto Van Dieman’s Land.

The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters came around us, there might be twenty-score
They ranked us off like horses, and they sold us out of hand
And they yoked us to the plough, brave boys, to plough Van Diemen’s Land.

Oh if I had a thousand pounds all laid out in my hand
I’d give it all for liberty if that i could command
Again to Ireland I’d return and be a happy man
And bid adieu to poaching and to Van Diemen’s Land.

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from A Best Of The Dubliners, released February 10, 1969

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