I really like this song. Especially the haunting sounding chorus.
Its pretty obvious that this song is about something in Tasmania since it mentions Mt Wellington and the Derwent river. At first I thought it was about what happened to the original Aboriginal population mainly given the last verse and chorus.
Then I check on the lyrics and in the booklet it says this under the title - (Three convicts, Hobart Guest House, Marcus Clarke hails his last taxi), so this song is about convicts and the middle of the song supports it, since it has a place in histroy with a convict transport been taken over by the convicts and ended up disappearing down the Derwent.
Marcus Clarke was an author from the late 1800 I think who wrote a famous Australian novel about convict times in Tasmania, I haven't read the book so I don't know if this song follows the story or not.
I really like this song. Especially the haunting sounding chorus.
Its pretty obvious that this song is about something in Tasmania since it mentions Mt Wellington and the Derwent river. At first I thought it was about what happened to the original Aboriginal population mainly given the last verse and chorus.
Then I check on the lyrics and in the booklet it says this under the title - (Three convicts, Hobart Guest House, Marcus Clarke hails his last taxi), so this song is about convicts and the middle of the song supports it, since it has a place in histroy with a convict transport been taken over by the convicts and ended up disappearing down the Derwent.
Marcus Clarke was an author from the late 1800 I think who wrote a famous Australian novel about convict times in Tasmania, I haven't read the book so I don't know if this song follows the story or not.