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 last one (?}
Now seven seas they lay between us
One for each year cast apart
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

Gerry

BTW you could join Mudcat and PM Goldengob He's the singer