Name: Here's Adieu to all Judges and Juries
Duration: P00H02M25S
Description: A beautiful and heartfelt song about the loss of a loved one through transportation. During the 18th century, transportation was seen as a solution for a whole range of crimes including petty theft. Although sentences may have been for a fixed term, transportees often never returned. Learned from the singing of Dorothy Elliot on her and Derek's first album, with an additional verse.

Here's Adieu to all Judges and Juries

from The Poacher's Fate by Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp

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A beautiful and heartfelt song about the loss of a loved one through transportation. During the 18th century, transportation was seen as a solution for a whole range of crimes including petty theft. Although sentences may have been for a fixed term, transportees often never returned. Learned from the singing of Dorothy Elliot on her and Derek's first album, with an additional verse.

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Here's adieu to all judges and juries
Justice and old bailey too
Seven years I'm parted from my true love
Seven years I'm transported you know

O Polly I'm going for to leave you
For seven long years love or more
But the time it won't seem but one moment
When I think on the girl I adore

How hard is a place of confinement
That keeps me from my heart's delight
Cold irons and cold chains bound around me
And a plank for my pillow at night

If I had the wings of an eagle
Over the seas I would fly
I'd fly to the arms of my true love
And forever contented we'd lie

And if ever I return from the ocean
Stores of riches I'll bring for my dear
And it's all for the sake of my true love
I'll cross the salt seas without fear

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from The Poacher's Fate, released November 25, 2017
Trad. arr. Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp

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