Push for PORTER

Now Bass Strait roars like some great millrace
And where are you my Annie
The same moon shines on this lonely place
As shone one night on my Annie's face

Oh Annie dear don't wait for me
I fear I shall not return to thee
There's naught to do but endure my fate
And watch the moon, the lonely moon
Light the breakers on wild Bass Strait

We stole a vessel and all her gear
And where are you my Annie
And from Van Diemen's we north did steer
Till Bass Strait's wild waves wrecked us here

And somewhere west Port Melbourne lies
And where are you my Annie
Through swamps infested with snakes and flies
And the fool who walks there, he surely dies

[Chorus]
We hail no vessels, though the time it drags
And where are you my Annie
Our chain-gang walk and our government rags

All mark us out as Van Diemen's lags
We fled the lash and the chafing chain
And where are you my Annie
We fled hard labour and brutal pain

And here we are and here remain