Transport's Lament, The

DESCRIPTION: "All you distressed tradesmen, wherever you may be," listen and learn that it is poverty that causes crime. The singer couldn't find work, and so he turned highwayman to feed his family and is transported. If people had jobs there would be no crime.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1867 (broadside Bodleian Firth c.17(54))
KEYWORDS: work family separation transportation warning
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 72-73, "The Transport's Lamentation" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, pp. 447-448, "The Transport Lamentationl" (1 text)
Roud #V20190
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.17(54), "The Transport's Lamentation," J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Firth c.17(211), "The Transport's Lamentation," (unknown), n.d.
NOTES [19 words]: Anderson dates his broadside c. 1830, but since it is the Harkness broadside, it must be from 1840 or after. - RBW
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