cd: Little Bits of Truth
track 13: Caught Me In The Byre
What goes through the mind of a desperate man with the walls closing in around
The crop went bad to a poisonous black lay rotten in the rocky ground
There’s no way that I’d stand by and one by one watch my family die
They caught me in the byre with a bag full of oats when the blight had us at our knees
I said my wanes gonna soon cross over could you show a little mercy please?
They didn’t want hear my story, they didn’t care if it was true
They gave me ten years in the Diemen’s Land and there’s nothing anyone can do
There’s nothing anyone can do
Eighty-one days on a prison ship, we sailed ten thousand miles
Longing for the hell that I left behind in spite of the constant trials
Until I faced starvations’ knife I’d not stole a thing in life
Chorus
The ghost of a man with a difficult past going through the motions now
Fill my belly but an empty heart seems darker than the night somehow
I pray somehow that they’re alive, no word comes could they’ve survived
Chorus
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Written by Kyle Aughe