Lyrics Van Dieman's Land - Ronnie Drew
Come
all
you
gallant
poachers,
That
ramble
void
of
care,
That
walk
out
on
a
moonlight
night
With
your
dog
and
gun
and
snare.
The
hare
and
lofty
pheasant
You
have
at
your
command,
Never
thinkin'
of
your
last
career
Upon
Van
Diemen's
land.
Poor
Jackie
Brown
from
Nenagh
town
Jack
Murphy
and
Poor
Joe
Where
three
determined
poachers
As
the
country
well
does
know
By
the
keepers
of
the
land,
brave
boys
One
night
they
were
trepanned,
And
for
fourteen
years
transported
Unto
Van
Diemen's
Land.
On
the
first
day
that
we
landed
Upon
that
fatal
shore,
The
planters
gathered
'round
us
They
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
For
the
plough
Van
Diemen's
Land.
There
was
a
girl
from
Nenagh
town
Peg
Brophy
was
her
name
For
fourteen
years
transported
was
For
playing
off
the
game
But
our
planter
bought
her
freedom
And
he
wed
her
out
of
hand
Now
she
gives
to
us
good
usage
Upon
van
Diemen's
Land.
Oh,
I
wish
I
had
one
thousand
pounds
All
laid
out
in
my
hand
I'd
give
it
all
for
liberty
If
that
I
could
command
And
I'd
return
to
Ireland
And
I'd
be
a
happy
man
And
I'd
say
goodbye
to
poaching
boys
And
to
Van
Diemen's
Land
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1 Seven Drunken Nights
2 Donegal Danny
3 Biddy Mulligan
4 Finnegan's Wake
5 The Rare Auld Times
6 Johnny McGory
7 The Captains & The Kings
8 Leaving Nancy
9 The Auld Triangle
10 Van Dieman's Land
11 What Will We Tell the Children
12 The Ragman`s Ball
13 The Zoological Gardens
14 Monto
15 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
16 James Larkin
17 Molly Malone
18 The Irish Rover
19 I'll Tell Me Ma
20 The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel
21 D'ya Remember Jem
22 Love Is Pleasing
23 Building up and Tearing England Down
24 Phil the Fluter's Ball
25 Skibbereen
26 The Lowlands of Holland
27 Bombo Lane
28 Three Lovely Lassies from Kimmage
29 Ojos Negros
30 Weila Weila Waila
31 The Parting Glass
32 Mcalpine's Fusiliers
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