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Convict Maid
Verse:
E A
You lads and lasses all attend to me
B7 E
While I relate my tale of misery.
E A
By hopeless love was I once betrayed
B7 E
And now I am, alas, a Convict Maid.
E A
To please my lover did I try so sore
B7 E
That I spent upon him all my master's store,
E A
Who in his wrath did so loud upbraid,
B7 E
And brought before the judge this Convict Maid.
E A
The judge his sentence then to me addressed
B7 E
Which filled with agony my aching breast
E A
"To Botany Bay you must be conveyed
B7 E
For seven long years to be a Convict Maid."
E A
For seven long years I toiled in pain and grief
B7 E
And cursed the day when I became a thief.
E A
Oh, had I stuck by some honest trade
B7 E
I ne'er had been, alas, a Convict Maid.
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Last Updated: May 18, 2020