Key: G
Introduction: G D G D C D G D Am G C D
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Come all you wild and wicked youths wherever you may be
G D
I pray you give attention and listen unto me
C D G
I was brought up in Warwickshire, my parents raised me well
D Am G C D
My name it is young Henry, a tale to you I'll tell
G D
I and five more went one night to Squire Dunhill's park
G D
All hoping we could get some game, the night it did prove dark
C D G
But to our great misfortune, we were trepanned with speed
D Am G C D
And sent away to Warwick gaol, which caused my heart to bleed
G D
It was at the March assizes, to the bar we did repair
G D
Like Job we stood with patience to hear our sentence there
C D G
Being caught with old offenders, our case it did go hard
D Am G C D
My sentence was for fourteen years, I was quickly sent on board
G D
The ship that bore us from the land, the Speedwell was her name
G D
For full five months and upwards, oh, we ploughed the raging Main
C D G
No land, no harbour did we see, believe me it's no lie
D Am G C D
Around us swamp black water, above is wan blue sky
G D
The very day we landed upon the fateful shore
G D
The ranchers they stood 'round us, oh, twenty score or more
C D G
They ranked us up like horses and they sold us out of hand
D Am G C D
And yoked us to the plough right there, upon Van Diemen's Land
G D
It's often when I sleep at night and have a pleasant dream
G D
My pretty girl, I rove abroad, through field and sparkling stream
C D G
Yes, in England I've been robbed of her at my right hand
D Am G C D
But I wake up broken hearted here, upon Van Diemen's Land
G D
And although the poor of England pay their end in toil
G D
Robbed of every consequence, produce of the soil
C D G
Their proud, imperious landlord, if you paid rent and then
D Am G C D
Sent you off on British hulks to foul Van Diemen's Land
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