Unhappy Transport, The

DESCRIPTION: "Draw near a while my loving friends And lend lis'ning ear." Singer William Dale was brought up "an honest farmer's son" and apprenticed to a tinsmith, but fell in with bad companions, robbed a house, was transported; released, he returns to his mother
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1821 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland,)
KEYWORDS: transportation return reunion mother
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 96-98, "The Unhappy Transport" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 68, "The Unhappy Transport" (1 text, with a tune on p. 543); what appears to be a much-expanded text is on pp. 430-436, "The Unhappy Transport" (1 text, with a tune on p. 601)
Roud #V22672
File: AnFa096

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