Elizabeth Wade

from Voyage by The Good Girl Song Project

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lyrics

GG: (Committee Member - Spoken):
It says here that
They found you drunk on sailor’s rum
You’d fallen out of bed
You were sucking on a sorry thumb
Can you defend what’s just been said?

Elizabeth Wade:
“I've been in several situations
Some better than the worst
But in my last position
This silly lass was seduced

By the masters son
A spoilt rogue
Deserted on the streets
I took to drink and ended up
In the house of correction
for dissolute wenches
and fallen young women like me.

I spent 7 days hard labour
Pickin oakum well apart
There's the devil to pay and no pitch out
To plug the leaks and caulk this boat

No soul left that cares for me
My poor mother is dead
My father's since remarried
I've not seen him since he wed

Drink maybe my affliction
Poverty my distress
But now I ask paid passage
In Sydney's direction
where dissolute wenches
and fallen young women forget.

Instrumental.

Instrumental over spoken verse

Spoken verse:

When I met with the committee
They asked, “Elizabeth Wade, Do you still drink?”
I shook my head and answered, “No!”
Then threw me lord a wink.
She throws the audience a wink

We'll put you in The Refuge
To wait upon you berth
It is on a ship called Strathfieldsaye
An emigrant boat that has promised to float
Each fallen young woman away

credits

from Voyage, released September 5, 2020
Vocals: Penelope Swales
Male Vocal: Jamie Molloy
Guitar: Helen Begley
Whistle; Penelope Swales
Written by Helen Begley
Recorded, mixed and co-produced by Lachlan Wooden at Sing Sing Studios
Mastered by Ross Cockle at Sing Sing Studios
Album artwork: Adrian Wood

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