Convict Ways
Declan O'Rourke
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From the bells in England’s prison cells In ’67 one last time They filled up a southbound floating jail And on its fateful passage it set sail And aboard that vessel too did go Some sixty Fenian boys They were loaded on the Hougoumont And led out amidst the cry CHORUS “Farewell to all the convict ways To being slaves without the name of slaves Farewell to all the convict ways They’ll be the last we’ll see in irons and chains” And with them as they sped the wild waves o’er Bringing poetry and news With their spirits overhead did soar A sage and wild goose And when around that final coast they’d steer Into famed Freemantle Bay It’s reported that all souls on board Heard the wild waves and the wild winds say CHORUS “Farewell to all the convict ways To being slaves without the name of slaves Farewell to all the convict ways They’ll be the last we’ll see in irons and chains” But when one among them did escape That barren jailer’s land Those behind him he did not forsake Nor would rest until each one had been saved For he knew all men inside must feel That burning to be free And when any languished in a cage Not a single one of them could say: CHORUS “Farewell to all the convict ways To being slaves without the name of slaves Farewell to all the convict ways They’ll be the last we’ll see in irons and chains” Someday the men of this crude world will know As John Boyle O’Reilly knew That no man is free when free alone No man is free when alone That one soul in chains is all in chains That one soul enslaved is all enslaved And that all mankind is in the few And when all the life that they have seen And one hundred thousand days When all people of the world are free And when children ask us what is free When old men must ask us what are slaves And when women ask us what are chains When the wild, wild goose is old and grey And the golden egg of freedom’s lain, That is when we all can truly say, Then and only then: CHORUS “Farewell to all the convict ways To being slaves without the name of slaves Farewell to all the convict ways And farewell to life in irons and chains And farewell to life in irons and chains”
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