{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1861948,"song":"Van Diemens Land","artist":"Barbara Dickson","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11414744-van-diemens-land-chords-by-barbara-dickson/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1861948?type=chord","rating":4.92984,"votes":3,"content":"Barbara Dickson - Van Diemen's Land\r\n\r\n\r\nCAPO: 3rd Fret\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[INTRO:]   (**Didgeridoo**)\r\n\r\n[VERSE 1:] \r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCome all ye gallant poachers that ramble void of care[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat walked out on a moonlight night with your dog, your gun, your snare [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe hare and the lofty pheasant, you have at your command [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nNot thinking on your last career upon Van Diemen's Land [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 2:] \r\n[tab]                       [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPoor Thomas Brown from Nenagh Town, Jack Murphy and poor Joe[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWere three determined poachers, as the county well does know[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy the keepers of the land, me boys, one night they were trepanned[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd for fourteen years transported unto Van Diemen's Land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 3:] \r\n[tab]                      [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe first day that we landed upon that fatal shore[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe planters came around us there might be twenty score[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey ranked us off like horses and they sold us out of hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd they yoked us to the plough, brave boys, to plough Van Diemen's Land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 4:] \r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe cottages we live in are built with sods of clay[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWe have rotten straw for bedding, but we dare not say them nay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOur cots we fence with wire and we slumber when we can[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTo keep the wolves and tigers from us in Van Diemen's Land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 5:] \r\n[tab]                    [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOft times when I do slumber, I have a pleasant dream[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWith my sweetheart sitting near me, close by a purling stream[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI am roaming through old Ireland with my true love by the hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nBut awaken, broken hearted, upon Van Diemen's Land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[VERSE 6:] \r\n[tab]               [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh, if I had a thousand pounds, all laid out in my hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'd give it all for liberty, if that I could command[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAgain to Ireland I'd return and I'd be a happy man[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I'd bid farewell to poaching and to Van Diemen's Land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[OUTRO:]   (## fade to end ##)\r\n         [ch]Am[/ch]","plain_text":"Barbara Dickson - Van Diemen's Land\n\n\nCAPO: 3rd Fret\n\n\n\n\n[INTRO:]   (**Didgeridoo**)\n\n[VERSE 1:] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 2:] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 3:] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 4:] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 5:] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 6:] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[OUTRO:]   (## fade to end ##)\n         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