Excellent song Dave, nice sound recording 👌

Reading the title I thought it was a nod or tribute to the band Fatal Shore (saw them live in Hungary about 20 years ago, one of my favourite gig memories). I was mischievous and deliberately listened to it on my entry level Adam Audio monitors. The mix isn't only good, to me it's spotless and I mean it. Deep, crisp, quite honestly makes me jelaous. It takes courage to make the vocals this prominent in the mix but your excellent vocal delivery totally justifies it. Wonderful song with touching lyric, one of my favourites from you.

Very nice song Dave, I love the arrangement.

Très belle song et parfaite réalisation. Superbe voix. Du beau travail. Grand bravo.

A beautiful yet haunting song.  Great composition, performance and track!

Fantastic piece, Dave. The book was (and still is) very famous here, and deservedly so. I enjoyed your take on the worst of what happened.

cool song Dave, I remember coming to these great shores of Australia as a boy as an immigrant from Belfast,…..though not for any crime other than wanting peace and a better way of life, which it gave us in abundance………….but fuck me how things have changed now

when being on another continent meant being lost to nearly all contact

Words and Music Dave Rose
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I read a book a few years ago by Robert Hughes called Fatal Shore. It is thoroughly recommended, telling the stories of so many of the people who were simply transported to Australia for the most minor crimes carried out largely by people who were poor and starving. Australia today has become quite fantastic but the conditions back in the day must have been horrendous and terrifying for those people sent there.

Lyrics
Doesn't matter what my name is or any of these poor souls
Transported to Van Diemans land for stealing coal

Broke a rich man's law and there's Hell to pay
Transported to this fatal shore to serve our days

Conditions are horrendous the work is killing us
Never enough food, the guards are brutal and cruel

Broke a rich man's law and there's hell to pay
Transported to this fatal shore to serve our days

What became of my family, they'll never know what became of me
Will anyone tell my story?
What will be my legacy or my history?

Now as ghosts we look across this harbour from across the rocks
All these people all these buildings its changed so much
No more this fatal shore......This is Australia

Fatal Shore

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Here are some songs wot I wrote. Mostly recorded at home as a sort of one man band set up.
Sometimes other musicians play on the tunes too.

A little stroll on the mild side 🎧

I have a tendency to remove songs to tweak them and reload. Sometimes they never return 🤔

 thank you for listening.

Headphones recommended.

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