Loss of the Convict Ship

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you tender Christians that hear my tale of woe" as the singer tells of those transported for "petty crimes." They left Ireland in May. The ship is wrecked. The majority of the crew survives, but only 20 of 346 convicts survive
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland); Anderson dates his broadside c. 1835
KEYWORDS: transportation wreck disaster death
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 159-161, "The Loss of the Convict Ship" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, pp. 132-133, ""Loss of the Convict Ship" (1 text, with a tune on p. 555)
Roud #V32795
File: AnFa159

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