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lirik lagu jim moray - henry's downfall

[verse]
come all you wild and wicked youths, wherever you may be
i pray you pay attention and listen unto me
to the fate of our poor transports, as you shall understand
and the hardships that they undergo upon van diemen’s land

now my parents reared me tenderly, good learning gave to me
until with bad company, i was beguiled, which proved my destiny
and i was brought up in warwickshire, in southam town did dwell
and my name it is young henry, in harborne know full well

[chorus]
now young men all now beware
lest you are drawn into a snare

[verse]
i and fivе more went out one night to squirе dunhill’s park
to see if we could get some game, the night it proved dark
but to our great misfortune, we were trapanned with speed
and sent away to warwick jail which made our hearts to bleed

and at the march assizes to the bar we did repair
like job we stood with patience to hear our sentence there
being caught with old offenders, my case it did go hard
and my sentence was for fourteen years, i was quickly sent on board
[chorus]
now young men, all now beware
lest you are drawn into a snare

[verse]
the ship that bore us from the land, the speedwell was her name
for four, five months and better boys, we ploughed the raging main
no land nor harbour did we see, believe me it’s no lie
all around us one black water, above us one blue sky

and the very day we landed upon that fateful shore
the planters they stood round us boys, for forty~score or more
they ranked us up like horses and sold us out of hand
and they roped us to the plough me boys, to plough van diemen’s land

[chorus]
now young men, all now beware
lest you are drawn into a snare

[verse]
it’s oft times when i sleep at night i have a pleasant dream
with my pretty girl i’ve roved abroad, a field and sparkling stream
yes in england i’ve been rambling, with her at my right hand
but i’ll wake up broken~hearted upon van diemen’s land

although the poor of england do labour and do toil
they’re robbed of every blessing and produce of the soil
your proud imperious landlords, if you break their command
well they’ll send you off on british hulks to plough van diemen’s land
[chorus]
now young men, all now beware
lest you are drawn into a snare
now young men, all now beware
lest you are drawn into a snare

- lirik lagu jim moray

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