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35 lines
1.2 KiB
\selectlanguage{english}
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\songcolumns{2}
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\beginsong{Botany Bay}[by=Traditional]
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\beginchorus
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Fare\[D]well to your bricks and \[Bm]mortar, fare\[G]well to your \[A]dirty \[D]lies
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Fare\[D]well to your gangways \[Bm]and your gang planks
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And to \[Em]hell with your over\[A]time
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For the \[D]good ship Raga\[Bm]muffin, she's \[G]lying \[A]at the \[D]quay
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For to \[Bm]take oul Pat with a shovel on his back
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To the shores of \[A]Botany \[D]Bay
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\endchorus
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\beginverse
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I'm on my way down to the quay, where the ship at anchor lays
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To command a gang of navvys, that they told me to engage
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I thought I'd drop in for a drink before I went away
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For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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The boss came up this morning, he says "Well, Pat you know
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If you don't get your navvys out, I'm afraid you'll have to go"
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So I asked him for my wages and demanded all my pay
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For I told him straight, I'm going to emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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And when I reach Australia I'll go and look for gold
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There's plenty there for the digging of, or so I have been told
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Or else I'll go back to my trade and a hundred bricks I'll lay
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Because I live for an eight hour shift on the shores of Botany Bay
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\endverse
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\endsong
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