SHORES OF BOTANY BAY        From Australia



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    G                       Em          C                  G
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime,
                         Em                         A                  D
Farewell to your gangway and your gangplank, and to hell with your overtime,
        G             Em        C            D
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quay,
       Em                                                          D      Em
For to take old Pat, with his shovel on his back, to the shores of Botany Bay.



I'm on my way down to the quay where the good ship now doth lay
To command a gang of navvies I was told to engage.
I thought I'd take a look on board before I went away,
For to take a trip on an immigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay.

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Well the boss came up this morning and he says "Well, Pat, hullo,
If you don't mix that mortar quick, well it's sure you'll have to go."
And of course he did insult me, I demanded all my pay,
And I told his straight I was going to emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay.

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Now when I reach Australia I'll go and look for gold:
There's plenty for the digging of, or so I have been told,
Or I might go back to my trade again, eight hundred bricks I'll lay
In an eight hour day for an eight bob pay on the shores of Botany Bay.

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