Botany Bay
 

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              G                                Em
     Fare-well to your bricks and mortar
            C                        G
     fare-well to your dirty lies
             G                            Em
     fare-well to your gangers and your gangplanks
                A                          D(7)
     and to hell with your over-time
                G                        Em
     for the good ship Rag-a-muffin
        C               G
     is lying at the quay
              Em
     for to take old Pat
               Em
     with a shovel on his back
               B7                     (Em)
     to the shores of Botany Bay

     I made my way down to the quay
     where the ship at the anchor lays
     to engage a load of navvies
     they told me to engage
     I thought I'd stop in for a drink
     before I went away
     for to take that trip
     on the emigrant ship
     to the shores of Botany bay

Chorus:

     The boss came up this morning
     he says "Pat well you know,
     if you don't get your mortar straight
     I'm afraid you'll have to go"
     well I asked him for me wages
     the bossman he said "No"
     and I told him straight
     I'm gonna' emigrate
     to the shores of Botany bay

Chorus:

     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 I'll go back to my trade
     and a hundred bricks I'll lay
     because I'll live
     for an eight hour shift
     on the shores of Botany bay

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