Steeleye Span - Australia

^BWhen I was a young man, my age seventeen I ought to have been serving Vic^F#toria, my Queen But them hard-hearted ^Bjudges, oh, how ^Ecruel they ^Bbe For to send us poor ^Elads to Aus^F#tra^Blia

^BI fell in with a damsel, she was handsome and gay I neglected my work more and ^F#more everyday And to keep her like a ^Blady, I went ^Eon the high^Bway And for that I was ^Esent to Aus^F#tra^Blia ^{A E}

Aus^Btralia, Australia, I would ne'er see no more Worn out with the fever, cast ^F#down to Death's door And if I ever ^Blive, say, ^Eseven years ^Bmore I would soon bid a^Edieu to Aus^F#tra^Blia

^BNow the judges, they stand with their whips in their hands And they drive us like horses to ^F#plough up the land You should see us poor young ^Bfellas, a-^Eworking in the ^Bgaol-yard How cruel is our ^Efate in Aus^F#tra^Blia ^{A E}

Aus^Btralia, Australia, I would ne'er see no more Worn out with the fever, cast ^F#down to Death's door And if I ever ^Blive, say, ^Eseven years ^Bmore I would soon bid a^Edieu to Aus^F#tra^Blia