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Van Diemans Land

from Driving Alone by Steve Binetti

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    Driving Alone is my first release as a soloist and was released in 2009.
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    All songs written by Steve Binetti.

    "Johnny B. Goode": written by Chuck Berry.
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    research, interpretation & music by Steve Binetti.

    Steve Binetti (voc., guitar, footstomping, harp)
    Claudia Splitt (backroundvocals on "Hoover Blues")
    Tim Schallenberg (bassguitar & bassguitar-arrangements)
    Sascha Moser (shakers on "Drunken Kid")

    Thanks to: Candice Strateman, Claudia Splitt, Tim Schallenberg, Schwarwel, Daniel Dorsch, Holger Jagsch, Basti, Martha Marcinski, Anna Hofman, Emanuel Fialik, Olav Bruhn.
    © 2009 by Steve Binetti

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lyrics

Van Diemens Land

come all you gallant poaching boys
that ramble void of care
that wander out on moonlit nights 
with a dog and gun and snare
the hare and lofty pheasant 
you have at your command
never thinking of your last career 
upon Van Diemens Land

poor Tomy Brown from Londonderry
Jack Murphy and Poor Joe
we was daring poachers 
as everybody well did know
by the keepers of the land oh boys 
one night we’re trapped oh boys
who for fourteen years 
transported us into Van Diemens Land

the first day that we landed 
upon that fatal shore
the planters came around us 
they might be twenty score,
they ranked us up like horses 
and sold us out of hand
and they yoked us up to ploughing frames 
to plough Van Diemens Land

the cottages we are living in
are built of sods of clay
we have rotten straw for bedding
and to that we daren’t say nay
the cots we fence with fire
and slumber when we can
to keep the wolves and tigers
from us in Van Diemens land

it’s often when in slumber 
I’ve had a pleasant dream
with my sweet girl sittin near me
down by some lovely stream
I’m roving thru ol’ irland 
with my truelove by the hand
then I wake up broken-hearted 
upon Van Diemens Land

god bless our wives and families,
likewise that happy shore,
that isle of sweet contentment
which we shall see no more
as for our wretched females
see them we seldom can
there are twenty men to one woman 
upon Van Diemens Land

but fourteen years is a long time 
that is our fatal doom
for nothing more but poaching 
and that was all we’ve done
you would give up your dog and gun 
and poaching, every man
if you only knew the hardship 
thats in Van Diemens 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 I’d bid farewell to poaching
and to Van Diemens Land

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from Driving Alone, released July 10, 2016

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