the transports to return back again, To fight for Old England her rights to maintain. However, some traditional versions leave out the transportation references entirely. Versions by the Suffolk singer Percy Webb and George Ling are in the British Library Sound Archive. Jim Jones at Botany Bay (Roud 5478) Though frequently recorded by modern folk singers, there is no evidence that this song was widely known in the nineteenth century, either in Australia or elsewhere. The Roud Folk Song Index contains a single entry. The song was included in a 1907 book of reminiscences, "Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South", by Charles MacAlister, who drove bullock-teams in south-eastern New South Wales in the 1840s. MacAlister describes the ballad as a "typical song of the convict days", but gives us no information as to who sang it or how he came to know it. Ballads about Transportation and Ireland Some ballads deal with Irishmen transported for political offences. These use different motifs from the English and Scottish ballads. Examples include: "Mitchell's Address"(Roud 5163), "The Isle of France" (Roud 1575), "The Boys of Mullaghbawn" (Roud 2362), and "The Maids Lamentation" (Roud V16510) Ballads about Chartists, Trades Unionists and Transportation English, Welsh and Scottish people were also transported for political offences and ballads were composed in protest - for example, "Frost, Williams, and Jones's farewell to England" (Roud V15587), about John Frost and others transported during the Chartist struggle for adult male franchise, The broadside "The Cotton Spinners Farewell" (Roud V15587) concerns some Scottish cotton spinners sentenced to seven years transportation for trades union activities. Proper Objects for Botany Bay (Roud V27861) Most transportation ballads either accept transportation or deplore its cruelty. This ballad praises the practice and lists classes of people the author feels should be transported. It doesn't seem to have been printed often, and hasn't been collected from traditional singers. References Forced migration Convictism in Australia Scottish ballads English broadside ballads British North America Scottish folk songs English folk songs Irish ballads Irish folk songs British colonization of the Americas