Convict Maid, The

DESCRIPTION: "You lads and lasses all attend to me While I relate my tale of misery; By hopeless love I was once betrayed, And now I am, alas, a convict maid." Her lover had her rob her master's store; now she is sentenced for seven years. She regrets her error
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1867 (various Bodleian broadsides)
KEYWORDS: robbery transportation love punishment
FOUND IN: Australia
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Paterson/Fahey/Seal-OldBushSongs-CentenaryEdition, pp. 58-60, "The Convict Maid" (1 text)
Fahey-Eureka-SongsThatMadeAustralia, p. 26, "The Convict Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-PintPotAndBilly, p. 25, "The Convict Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manifold-PenguinAustralianSongbook, p. 19, "The Convict Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 126-127, "The London Convict Maid" (1 text)
DT, CONVCTMD*
Geoffrey C. Ingleton, _True Patriots All: or News from Early Australia as told in A Collection of Broadsides_ ("Garnered and Decorated" by Ingleton), Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988, p. 165, "The London Convict Maid" (1 text, a reproduction of a Birt broadside)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 144, "The Convict Maid" (1 text, with a tune on p. 557)
Roud #5479
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.13(315), "The Convict Maid," ("Ye London maids attend to me"), J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Harding B 11(687), J. Harkness (Preston, 1840-1866; also Firth c.17(45), (no title), H. Such (London), 1863-1885;; also Firth c.17(43), "The Convict Maid" ("Ye Glasgow maids attend to me"), unknown, n.d.; also Firth b.34(164)=Johnson Ballads 667, C. Paul (London), n.d.; also Harding B 15(61a), C. Paul (London), n.d.; Harding B 40(19), J. F. Nugent & Co. (Dublin?), 1850-1899 (link broken)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Croppy Boy (I)" [Laws J14] (tune)
File: FaE026

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