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In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on r | dG1fWXVQOGdfR1FJZ0k
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00:00I wish I were on yonder hill.
00:22We don't want no trouble.
00:24That's just the way, isn't it?
00:27You don't want trouble, but sometimes trouble wants you.
00:35Get me to the soldiers that came by this morning.
00:39It's too dangerous.
00:40Up north, they kill us.
00:43You sure you want to follow him?
00:56What are you doing?
01:02I don't want no trouble.
01:05I'll sell my rock, I'll sell my wheel.
01:12I'll sell my only spinning wheel.
01:19You know what it's like to have a white fella take everything you have, don't you?
01:25To buy my lover a sword of steel.
01:30What's your name again?
01:32Claire.
01:34I'm not your boy.
01:36I'm Mangana, the blackbird.
01:38I wish, I wish, I wish in vain.
01:44You white ones go fast, fast, fast.
01:47Get nowhere.
01:49I go slow.
01:51I wish I had my love again.
01:56The bird thought she was going to die out there in the forest.
02:11Suddenly, she was free.
02:21She was free.
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