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Hold me now
Oh hold me now
'Til this hour
Has gone around
And I'm gone
On the rising tide
For to face
Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill
I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice
And not for gain
But the magistrate
Sent me away
Now kings will rule
And the poor will toil
And tear their hands
As they tear the soil
But a day will come
In this dawning age
When an honest man
Sees an honest wage
Hold me now
Oh hold me now
'Til this hour
Has gone around
And I'm gone
On the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
Oh hold me now
'Til this hour
Has gone around
And I'm gone
On the rising tide
For to face
Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill
I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice
And not for gain
But the magistrate
Sent me away
Now kings will rule
And the poor will toil
And tear their hands
As they tear the soil
But a day will come
In this dawning age
When an honest man
Sees an honest wage
Hold me now
Oh hold me now
'Til this hour
Has gone around
And I'm gone
On the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
Lyrics submitted by yuri_sucupira
Van Diemen's Land Lyrics as written by Dave Evans Adam Clayton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Van Diemen was a man who owned alot of Australia. He hired poor workers in Scottland and England to work for him at low wages. He treated them horribly and many perished. SOme of the workers were indentured servants.
@schuttface Van Diemen's land was the name for Tasmania. Van Diemen was actually a guy who sent explorer Tasman on a voyage where he discovered the island. This is about an Irish man in the 1800s who was rebelling against English rule during the famine who was convicted and sent to Van Diemen's land as punishment.