Botany Bay 


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	Fare-well to your bricks and mortar
                        C                                    G
	fare-well to your dirty lies
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	fare-well to your gangers and your gangplanks
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	and to hell with your over-time
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	for the good ship Rag-a-muffin 
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	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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