Louisa - Katie Noonan

My beloved was taken ill he did not make it through

My 3 young boys are all i have now

We travelled cross the channel for promise of a better life

No such life was ours to be had

Our hunger was so great a loaf of bread I take

And soon the hands of law struck me down

The judge believed my boys were fit to strive alone

And hung a term of 7 years around my neck

In squalid filthy rank I travelled 4 months on the rough seas

Made only rougher by the hand of men

Sent to Hobart town to stare my sentence down

I worked all day as the settlers fortunes grew

My boys are young men now, my grief can not be told

Oh how I long to hold their face

This valley of death so cold and bitter

A lonely, sad, cold life for me here

But soon the sun shone and my unpaid work was done

I left these bitter walls a free woman

My heart once sorely closed opened once again

And so my story ends

A new path shines for me a future I can feel

Where happiness is somehow waiting for me