at least 26 singers in England, 9 in Scotland, 9 in Ireland, 7 in the US and 5 in Canada. A version by Louis Killen, recorded by Keith Summers, is available online at the British Library Sound Archive. Several versions by Scottish singers are on the Tobar an Dualchais website. Van Diemen's Land/Henry the Poacher (Roud 221) Another song about a poacher transported, this ballad has all the classic ingredients, from the "warning take by me" in the first verse through the loving upbringing, bad companions, the crime, trial, sentence, voyage, and traumatic arrival - though the ending is somewhat softened, It was widely published in broadsides during the 19th century, and was collected from traditional singers in England during the twentieth century. There are two versions by traditional singers in the British Library Sound Archive, one by Norfolk singer Walter Pardon, with the "Young men beware" refrain, recorded by Reg Hall in 1975, and four verses by an unnamed singer recorded by Stephen Sedley. Others There are many variations on the basic themes. Many broadside ballads about transportation have either not been adopted by traditional singers, or have been unrecorded by collectors. References to Transportation in Other Traditional Songs Maggie May (folk song) (Roud 1757) The anti-heroine of this well known Liverpool folk song ends up in Botany Bay. The Black Velvet Band (Roud 2146) Although this is one of the best known songs to mention transportation, it doesn't fit the typical pattern of a transportation ballad. The narrator isn't guilty of the crime he was transported for, and the song doesn't discuss the mechanism of transportation. The caution at the end of the tale isn't to avoid crime - the narrator warns young men to "beware of the pretty colleens". Flash Company/The Yellow Handkerchief (Roud 954) Broadside versions of this song complain that transportation has parted the narrator from his/her lover, and suggest that the young men sent abroad as transports might be needed as soldiers in future wars. Here's adieu to you judges you are too severe, You have banished my true love far away from here, But the rocks shall run to water and the rivers run dry, If ever I prove false to the girl that loves I. If the wars should come again, what would Old England say? They would wish for the lads they have sent o'er the sea, They would wish for