Jillie, that is definitely not the transportation Ballad I mentioned above. I'm looking forward to John K.'s next CD and hope it will be on it.

I did a Google search for a few phrases of your lyrics and found this verse in Maurice R. Cloughley: A World to the West, leading into Chapter XIV, The Coral Coast:

Australia, me lads, is a mighty fine place
Heave away, heave away,
And to go there me lads is no disgrace
We're bound for Australia