Top 10 Barmy Army Ashes songs and chants

9. Convict Colony

(To the tune of Yellow Submarine)

In the town where I was born, there lived a man who was a thief

And he told me of his life, stealing bread and shagging sheep.

So they put him in the nick, and then a magistrate he went to see

He said “put him on a ship, to the convict colony”

You all live in a convict colony, a convict colony, a convict colony

You all live in a convict colony, a convict colony, a convict colony