From the recording Wrong Train, Right Station
Lyrics
Are you there my Johnny boy?
Will you go to Tallow Beach?
Will you work the cedar trail?
Will you do as I beseech?
By the time I reached the camp
There were twenty men or more
Some had been to Jarman’s house
Others slept along the shore
As we worked the Skinner’s Shoot
Davy James could not be found
And we felled from dawn to dusk
My best friend had gone to ground
My love, you pushed me just too far
I’ve killed a man now I must run,
Far from Cavvanbah
When I lay my head to sleep
I was woken by a dream
I did flee from Tallow Beach
I could hear my true love scream
Came the dawn at Brunswick Heads
‘Fore I reached my humble home
And I saw upon my bed
My true love and Davy prone
My love you pushed me just too far
I’ve killed a man now I must run
Far from Cavvanbah
Are you there my Johnny Boy?
Will you go to Tallow Beach?
Will you work the cedar trail?
Will you do as I beseech?