some time ago, I learned a version of Van Dieman's land from a shanty album that I'm sure I've altered some of the words to.. senior moments/folk process/CRS

Come all ye lads of learning, ye rambling boys beware
For when ye go a hunting with dog, and gun and snare
In search of hare or widgeon, keep them to your command
Or else ye may be transported to plow Van Dieman's Land.

is this familiar to anyone else... probably Gibb, since it was on one of the few shanty albums I could track down in the early 1980's.