Botany Bay
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C
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies
Am
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Farewell to your gangers and gang planks and to hell with your overtime
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Am F
C
The good ship Ragamuffin she's lying at the Quay
Am
For to take oul Pat with his shovel on his back
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To the shores of Botany Bay
Verse 1:
I'm on my way down to the Quay where the ship at anchor lies
To command a gang of navvys that they told me to engage
I thought I'd drop in for a drink before I went away
For to take a trip on an emigrant ship
To the shores of Botany Bay
Chorus:
Verse 2:
The boss came up this morning, he says "well Pat, you know
If you don't get your navvys out, I'm afraid you'll have to go"
So I asked him for my wages and demanded all my pay
For I told him straight, I'm going to emigrate
To the shores of Botany Bay
Chorus:
Verse 3:
And when I reach Australia I'll go and look for gold
There's plenty there for the digging of, or so I have been told
Or else I'll go back to my trade and a hundred bricks I'll lay
Because I live for an eight hour shift
On the shores of Botany Bay
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