The Arran Convict

G C G D7 I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary C G D7 Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning G C G But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison D7 C The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream G D G That arrives and escapes with the dawning D7 It seems just like yesterday sailing from Brodick G D7 Across the Atlantic in search of a wife and some land D7 But the New Brunswick winters are lonely and hard G D7 So I followed the wagons out west with no money or plan G C G D7 I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary C G D7 Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning G C G But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison D7 C The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream G D G That arrives and escapes with the dawning D7 I've worked on the railroad with Chinese and Irish G D7 Slept in the pinewoods and heard the wolves screech in the dawn D7 But a Scotsman in Portland took all of my money G D7 He sold me a cartload of candles he robbed from a store G C G D7 I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary C G D7 Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning G C G But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison D7 C The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream G D G That arrives and escapes with the dawning D7 And I fell in with gangsters and dealers in moonshine G D7 And soon they involved me in driving their wagons of booze D7 One night we were ambushed and I killed a black man G D7 Now I'm in the jailhouse in one of the hard labour crews G C G D7 I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary C G D7 Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning G C G But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison D7 C The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream G D G That arrives and escapes with the dawning D7 Sometimes when it's dark I remember Lochranza G D7 And the days when the rain from Kintyre was a sheet without end D7 And long legged Mary is smiling beside me G D7 And when they release me I think I'll go back there again G C G D7 I wish I was back on the Lochranza Ferry with long legged Mary C G D7 Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning G C G But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison D7 C The mercury's rising and freedom's a dream G D G That arrives and escapes with the dawning