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Henry's Downfall single work   poetry   "Come all you wild and wicked youths wherever you may be,"
Alternative title: Young Henry the Poacher; The Transport's Lament; Adieu to Old England, or, the Transport's Farewell
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 Henry's Downfall
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Variant title appears in The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads
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    y separately published work icon Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times Douglas Stewart (editor), Nancy Keesing (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z389570 1957 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976 pg. 6-7
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    y separately published work icon The Convict Maid: Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 Z1604403 1985 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced, along with transcriptions and notes, in this work and in the companion volume The Transport's Lament (1986). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1987-1988. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 pg. 58-9
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Convict Maid: Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 Z1604403 1985 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced, along with transcriptions and notes, in this work and in the companion volume The Transport's Lament (1986). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1987-1988. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 pg. 43
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: Young Henry's Downfall. First line: Come all you wild and wicked youths wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Convict Maid: Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 Z1604403 1985 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced, along with transcriptions and notes, in this work and in the companion volume The Transport's Lament (1986). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1987-1988. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 pg. 42
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: Young Henry the Poacher. First line: Come all you wild and wicked youths, wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Convict Maid: Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 Z1604403 1985 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced, along with transcriptions and notes, in this work and in the companion volume The Transport's Lament (1986). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1987-1988. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 pg. 41
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: Young Henry the Poacher. First line: Come all you wild and wicked youths, wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Convict Maid: Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 Z1604403 1985 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced, along with transcriptions and notes, in this work and in the companion volume The Transport's Lament (1986). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1987-1988. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 pg. 40
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: Young Henry the Poacher. First line: Come all you wild and wicked youths, wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Convict Maid: Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 Z1604403 1985 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced, along with transcriptions and notes, in this work and in the companion volume The Transport's Lament (1986). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1987-1988. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1985 pg. 39
    Note: With title: Young Henry the Poacher. First line: Come all you wild and wicked youths, wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 42
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: The Transport's Farewell. First line: Come all you wild young fellows wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 41
    Note: With title: Adieu to Old England, or, the Transport's Farewell. First line: Come all you wild young fellows wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 40
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: Adieu to Old England, or, the Transport's Farewell. First line: Come all you wild young fellows wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 33
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. First line: Come all you wild and wicked youths, wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 32
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: Young Henry the Poacher. Come all you wild and wicked, youths wherever you may be,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 31
    Note: With title: Young Henry the Poacher.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 30
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: The Transport's Lament. First line: Come all you wild and wicked youths and listen unto me,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 16
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. With title: Young Henry the Poacher.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Old Ballads from the Bush Bill Scott (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1987 Z57118 1987 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1987 pg. 11-12
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads [1993] Elizabeth Webby (editor), Philip Butterss (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1993 Z136407 1993 anthology poetry humour satire Ringwood : Penguin , 1993 pg. 19-20
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    y separately published work icon Farewell to Judges and Juries : The Broadside Ballads and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868 Hugh Anderson (editor), Hotham Hill : Red Rooster Press , 2000 Z897572 2000 anthology poetry criticism diary autobiography Verse text (and where accessible tunes) of approximately 140 transportation broadside songs and verses, with extracts from personal stories of convicts as given in letters, diaries, chapbooks, and reminiscences. More than 150 illustrations, including the art work of headpieces and reproduction of drawings and engravings. Introduction surveys books and articles dealing with the broadside industry and with convict transportation. Hotham Hill : Red Rooster Press , 2000 pg. 187
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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  • Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
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