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Don’t go stealing Georgie
They’ll take you away
They’ll take you away
To Van Diemans Land
Don’t go stealing Georgie
With your brothers John & Tom
They’ll put you on the Tortoise Georgie
For Van Diemans Land
Look after your Baby Georgie
You’re a free man now
Forget the anger Georgie
Look after Mary Morgan
Don’t go robbing Georgie
Don’t go robbing Cressy Fare
They’ll take you to the scragger, Georgie
To the three-legged mare
Did you hate the English Bastard Upper Class
Did you hate the rank and file
Did you hate the Lords and Magistrates
And did you hate the fatal miles
Did you look back across the ocean
As your family disappeared
Did you watch old England vanish
Or did the shackles stem your fear
You’re gonna die Georgie
You’re sitting on the row
Don’t be proud Georgie
Ask them for mercy Georgie
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Your legacy was black Georgie
They wouldn’t speak your name
You were a forgotten man Georgie
A token of their shame
It’s a modern world now Georgie
You sit high up in the tree
You look down the line on business men
And girls with Phd’s
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