The Arran Convict chords by Battlefield Band

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

The Arran Convict

Chorus:
G                            C          G
I wish I was back on the long lands of Ferry
                     D         Em
With long legged Marry, breathin’ the spray
A                            G      D
And the sweet island air of the morning
G                                   C        G
But I’m wastin’ away in this sweltering prison,
                         D               C
The mercury’s rising and freedoms a dream,
G                                               D       G
That arrives and escapes with the dawning

D                                  G          D
It seems just like yesterday, sailing from Bradon
G                                      Em                      D
Across the Atlantic in search of a wife and some land
A                                       G              D
But the New Brunswick winters are lonely and hard
G                                Em                                 D
So I followed the wagons out West with no money or plan

Chorus:
G                            C          G
I wish I was back on the long lands of Ferry
                     D         Em
With long legged Marry, breathin’ the spray
A                            G      D
And the sweet island air of the morning
G                                   C        G
But I’m wastin’ away in this sweltering prison,
                         D               C
The mercury’s rising and freedoms a dream,
G                                               D       G
That arrives and escapes with the dawning

D                               G                   D
I worked on the railroad with Chinese and Irish
G                                                        Em             D
I slept in the pine-woods and heard the wolf creep to the door
A                               G               D
But a Scotsman in Portland took all of my money
G                                               Em                        D
He sold me a cartload of candles he robbed from the storeD                               G              D
I fell in with gangsters and dealers and moonshine
G                                      Em                         D
And soon they involved me with drivin’ their wagons of booze
D                                       A             D
One night we were ambushed and I killed a black man
G                                       Em                   D
Now I’m in the jailhouse and one of the hard labor crew

Chorus:
G                            C          G
I wish I was back on the long lands of Ferry
                     D         Em
With long legged Marry, breathin’ the spray
A                            G      D
And the sweet island air of the morning
G                                   C        G
But I’m wastin’ away in this sweltering prison,
                         D               C
The mercury’s rising and freedoms a dream,
G                                               D       G
That arrives and escapes with the dawning

D                               A                    D
Sometimes when it’s dark I remember Lav Ransa?
G                                       Em                                      A
And days when the rains from Kentire was a sheet without end
D                               G               D
And long legged Mary who’d smile at me slyly
G                                    Em            D
When they release me I think I’ll go back there again

Chorus:
repeat twice

G                            C          G
I wish I was back on the long lands of Ferry
                     D         Em
With long legged Marry, breathin’ the spray
A                            G      D
And the sweet island air of the morning
G                                   C        G
But I’m wastin’ away in this sweltering prison,
                         D               C
The mercury’s rising and freedoms a dream,
G                                               D       G
That arrives and escapes with the dawning