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Thread #109739 Message #2296369
Posted By: GUEST,Sarah
24-Mar-08 - 06:47 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: William Whaley's Lament
Subject: Lyr Req: ? William Whalley's Lament
I'm looking for the missing / incorrect words to fill in the lyrics to a song I think is called William Whalley's Lament. It's on a CD that was hand-compiled and given to me and I have no idea of artist / recording / origins.
From listening, these are the words I can pick up:
Oh when the night is still and silent Long before the call of dawn I hear the cries of Boston harbour On the night that there my thoughts are borne
Chorus: Oh the night I sleep with Hannah Is a treat(?) to stand(?) by day Though I'm forced across the ocean My dreams are free to wander as they may
I stole a loaf to ease her hunger For her body held our child They sentenced me to transportation To the new land o'er the sea so wild
I feared the journey would defeat me As sick as I could not describe Bloodied limbs beneath the shackles Seldom we were fed the ????
Now seven seas they lay between us One for each year trans?? The child he will be born and growing From Van Dieman's land I long to part
Oh when the night is still and silent Long before the call of dawn I hear the cries of a foreign harbour On the night that there my thoughts are borne