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Barbara Dickson

Van Diemens Land

by Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson

Biography:

Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances.

Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….

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Barbara Dickson - Van Diemen's Land


CAPO: 3rd Fret




[INTRO:] (**Didgeridoo**)

[VERSE 1:]
Am F G Am G
Come all ye gallant poachers that ramble void of care
Am C D F G Am
That walked out on a moonlight night with your dog, your gun, your snare
C G Am G
The hare and the lofty pheasant, you have at your command
Am C D F G Am
Not thinking on your last career upon Van Diemen's Land


[VERSE 2:]
F G Am G
Poor Thomas Brown from Nenagh Town, Jack Murphy and poor Joe
Am C D F G Am
Were three determined poachers, as the county well does know
C G Am G
By the keepers of the land, me boys, one night they were trepanned
Am C D F G Am C D Am Am7 Am
And for fourteen years transported unto Van Diemen's Land


[VERSE 3:]
F G Am G
The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
Am C D F G Am
The planters came around us there might be twenty score
C G Am G
They ranked us off like horses and they sold us out of hand
Am C D F G Am
And they yoked us to the plough, brave boys, to plough Van Diemen's Land


[VERSE 4:]
F G Am G
The cottages we live in are built with sods of clay
Am C D F G Am
We have rotten straw for bedding, but we dare not say them nay
C G Am G
Our cots we fence with wire and we slumber when we can
Am C D F G Am C D Am Am7 Am
To keep the wolves and tigers from us in Van Diemen's Land


[VERSE 5:]
F G Am G
Oft times when I do slumber, I have a pleasant dream
Am C D F G Am
With my sweetheart sitting near me, close by a purling stream
C G Am G
I am roaming through old Ireland with my true love by the hand
Am C D F G Am
But awaken, broken hearted, upon Van Diemen's Land


[VERSE 6:]
F G Am G
Oh, if I had a thousand pounds, all laid out in my hand
Am C D F G Am
I'd give it all for liberty, if that I could command
C G Am G
Again to Ireland I'd return and I'd be a happy man
Am C D F G Am C D Am Am7 Am
And I'd bid farewell to poaching and to Van Diemen's Land


[OUTRO:] (## fade to end ##)
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