Convict Maid chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Convict Maid


Verse:
E            A
You lads and lasses all attend to me
B7            E
While I relate my tale of misery.
E                A
By hopeless love was I once betrayed
B7          E
And now I am, alas, a Convict Maid.

E            A
To please my lover did I try so sore
B7              E
That I spent upon him all my master's store,
E            A
Who in his wrath did so loud upbraid,
B7                E
And brought before the judge this Convict Maid.

E                 A
The judge his sentence then to me addressed
B7        E
Which filled with agony my aching breast
E            A
"To Botany Bay you must be conveyed
B7              E
For seven long years to be a Convict Maid."

E                A
For seven long years I toiled in pain and grief
B7            E
And cursed the day when I became a thief.
E            A
Oh, had I stuck by some honest trade
B7            E
I ne'er had been, alas, a Convict Maid.