A beautiful, sad lament set during the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840’s. A young man is being sent on a prison ship to Botany Bay, Australia, for the crime of stealing corn (oats) to feed his starving family. The “Trevelyan” from whom he stole it was a senior English civil servant who had callously stated that the famine was God’s way of teaching the Irish a lesson. Although done in the style of an Irish folk ballad, the song was written by Pete St. John in 1979. This TAB is based on the version by The Dubliners.