ANDERSON'S COAST

(by John Warner, as sung by Nancy Kerr & James Fagan)

Underlines start measures of the number of beats in the right column.

	Oh Annie dear, don't wait for me				6/6
	I fear I shall not return to thee				6/6
	There's naught to do but endure my fate		6/6
	And watch the moon, the lonely moon		6/6
	Light the breakers of wild Bass Strait. _		4/4/4/4

Old Bass Strait roars like some great mill race		6/6
	And where are you, my Annie				4/6
But the same moon shines on this distant place		6/6
As shone that night on my Annie's face				6/6

	But Annie dear ...

We stole a vessel and all her gear					6/6
	And where are you, my Annie				4/6
And from Van Diemen's we north did steer			6/6
'Til Bass Strait's wild waves wrecked us here			6/6

	But Annie dear ...

		A mile inland as our path was laid			6/6
			And where are you, my Annie		4/6
		We found a government stockade			6/6
		Long, long deserted, but stoutly made		6/6

And somewhere west port Melbourne lies			6/6
	And where are you, my Annie				4/6
Through swamps infested with snakes and flies		6/6
The fool who walks there surely dies				6/6

We hail no ships though time it drags				6/6
	And where are you, my Annie				4/6
Our chain gang walk and government rags			6/6
All mark us out as Van Diemen's lags				6/6

	But Annie dear ...

We fled the lash and the chafing chain				6/6
	And where are you, my Annie				4/6
We fled hard labour and brutal pain				6/6
And here we are, and here remain					6/6

	But Annie dear ...

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