They said I did what I’d not done

Wind away and leeward blow

Thine hand upon thine father’s gun

Wind away and leeward blow

Guilty of no true defence

Sent me down and locked below

Transported from my village hence

No appeal, so off you go

Kith and kin they find me dead

Wind away and leeward blow

A year for every tear was shed

Torrents of a mother’s woe

A future now they hold for me

Where it lies I do not know

Ninety days I’ll be at sea

So wind away and leeward blow

No more sod, and no more soil

Let thems that reap go on to sow

No shackles of eternal toil

Wind away and leeward blow

Smell freedom in this open sky

Hope’s sail I raise and fears I stow

Not yoked to service till I die

Wind away and leeward blow

Come creak and flap above of me

For I was sentenced long ago

Jerusalem a prison made

And I’ve escaped, its law I owe

Like me her youth has been betrayed

Wind away and  leeward blow

A life for Jack is what I planned

Come wind away and leeward blow

I’ll carve it with my own just hand

Without eternal’s chest in tow

So speed to me Van Diemen’s Land

True Wind away and leeward blow!

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