{"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":2384607,"song":"Van Diemens Land","artist":"Daoiri Farrell","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11492747-van-diemens-land-chords-by-daoiri-farrell/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2384607?type=chord","rating":4.75266,"votes":12,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n  Come all ye gallant poachers that ramble void of care[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat walked out on a moonlight night with your dog, your gun, your snare[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe hare and the lofty pheasant, you have at your command[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/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]Dm[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n Poor Thomas Brown from Nenagh Town, Jack Murphy and poor Joe[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWere three determined poachers, as the county well does know[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBy the keepers of the land, me boys, one night they were trepanned[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/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]Dm[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n  The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe planters came around us there might be twenty score[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThey ranked us off like horses and they sold us out of hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/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]Dm[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n   The cottages we live in are built with sods of clay[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe have rotten straw for bedding, but we dare not say them nay[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nOur cots we fence with wire and we slumber when we can[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/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]Dm[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nGod bless our wives and families, likewise that happy shore,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat isle of sweet contentment, which we shall see no more;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAs for the wretched females, See them we seldom can,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThere are fourteen men to every woman In Van Diemen's Land.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n  Oft times when I do slumber, I have a pleasant dream[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith my sweetheart sitting near me, close by a purling stream[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI am roaming through old Ireland with my true love by the hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut awaken, broken hearted, upon Van Diemen's Land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n  Oh, if I had a thousand pounds, all laid out in my hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]Dm[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'd give it all for liberty, if that I could command[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAgain to Ireland I'd return and I'd be a happy man[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd I'd bid farewell to poaching and to Van Diemen's Land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]","plain_text":"[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[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nDm","chords":["Dm","C","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}