Additional verse in one of the broadsides-

Now if I had a thousand pounds laid dowm all in my hand,
I'd give it all for liberty, if that I could command:
And to England I'd return and be a happy man,
And bid adieu to poaching and to Van Dieman's Land.

Firth c.19(60), Bebbington printer, Manchester. C. 1850.

All have "we all well know the same" except for one that lacks the verse. All seem to have the same origin; author and first printing ?
The phrase "playing the game" probably a MacColl revision.

One version, a later rewrite, speaks of the transported men being vetted and yoked up by negroes.