The Go Set - Roaring Forties lyrics

Well I met a fervent lady in the splendour of the night And a harlot is a curse and so began my plight I am a poor unhappy soul within these walls I lay And transportation sentenced, I'm going far away I spent ever sovereign to maintain the lofty dame And when it all ran out she treated me with disdain So upon her orders I began a life to plunder But now she is long gone and I am left to wonder So here I ride on the roaring forties She’d tear for seven years in a foreign land Here I ride on the roaring forties She’d tear for seven years a forsaken man Well I was a young man proud, but I turned a common thief A man will do most anything for a woman’s spell beneath My aged parents proud, they bitterly did cry They bid farewell their son, and his soul, goodbye So come all you native boys, come and gather round I'll tell you all the story of why I'm ironbound I stood before the judge and was sentenced for my ways He said my lad you are transported - To Botany Bay So here I ride on the roaring forties She'd tear for seven years in a foreign land Here I ride on the roaring forties She’d tear for seven years a forsaken man