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Assisted Passage (Whaling Barque)

from Crossing the Line by Forty Degrees South

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The Third Fleet of convict transport ships to Australia was mostly vessels with approval to go whaling after disposing of their human cargo. Seal skins, whale oil and bone were the first significant exports from the infant colony.

lyrics

Don’t take a trip like this me boys
don’t sail across the sea,
For to Botany Bay I’m headed
and I’m chained in misery.

Chorus:
Oh the whaling barque is rolling bad
it makes our irons clang,
As we pitch across the ocean
for to join the prison gang.

It was on a cold and moonlit night
the frost lay all around,
His lordship’s keepers beat me ’til
I fell upon the ground.

They took the rabbit I had caught
to feed me child at home,
For fourteen years the judge he said
my sins I must atone.

They took me from the dungeon
on to a whaling barque,
And with rats and roaches now I sail
and savage bureaucrats.

Oh Mother England’s clever
and her business methods stark,
For the ships that take the convicts out
will bring her whale oil back.

credits

from Crossing the Line, released July 9, 2021
Harry Robertson 1971

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Forty Degrees South Sydney, Australia

A Sydney folk group known from 1988 for their powerful impact when singing unaccompanied traditional songs.

Strong individual singers, the interplay of their combined voices makes for a distinctive sound.

Sea shanties and other songs of maritime and industrial history and union songs feature large in their repertoire, songs with a robust quality that tell of real people, their lives and work.
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