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    Convict Maid Song

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    The convict maid addresses a crowd to tell the story of how she ended up as a convict in Botany Bay. She stole from her master to please her lover, who betrayed her, leading to her arrest. At her trial, the judge sentenced her to 7 years as a convict in Botany Bay for her theft. She now works in pain and grief, cursing the day she became a thief and wishing she had pursued an honest trade instead of ending up as a convict maid.

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    The convict maid addresses a crowd to tell the story of how she ended up as a convict in Botany Bay. She stole from her master to please her lover, who betrayed her, leading to her arrest. At her trial, the judge sentenced her to 7 years as a convict in Botany Bay for her theft. She now works in pain and grief, cursing the day she became a thief and wishing she had pursued an honest trade instead of ending up as a convict maid.

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    The convict maid addresses a crowd to tell the story of how she ended up as a convict in Botany Bay. She stole from her master to please her lover, who betrayed her, leading to her arrest. At her trial, the judge sentenced her to 7 years as a convict in Botany Bay for her theft. She now works in pain and grief, cursing the day she became a thief and wishing she had pursued an honest trade instead of ending up as a convict maid.

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    Convict Maid Song

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    The convict maid addresses a crowd to tell the story of how she ended up as a convict in Botany Bay. She stole from her master to please her lover, who betrayed her, leading to her arrest. At her trial, the judge sentenced her to 7 years as a convict in Botany Bay for her theft. She now works in pain and grief, cursing the day she became a thief and wishing she had pursued an honest trade instead of ending up as a convict maid.

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    The Convict Maid

    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 To please my lover did I try full sore, I spent upon him all my masters store, Who in his wrath did so loud upbraid, And brought before the judge this convict maid. The judge his sentence then to me addressed, Which filled with agony my aching breast; To Botany Bay you must be conveyed, For seven long years to be a convict maid. For seven long years I toil in pain and grief, And curse the day that I became a thief, Oh had I stuck by an honest trade, Id never have been alas, a convict maid.

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