Botany bay

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GEmCG

Farewell to your brick and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime.

GEmA7D

Farewell to your gangers and gangplanks, to hell with your overtime.

GEmCD

For the good ship Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay,

EmEmA#7EmD

For to take old Pat, with a shovel on his back, to the shores of Botany Bay.

1.

GEmCG

I'm on my way down to the Quay where the ship at anchor lays,

GEmA7D

To command a gang of navvies they told me to engage.

GEmCD

I've just dropped in to have a drink before I sail away,

EmEmA#7EmD

For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay.

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2.

GEmCG

The boss come up this morning, says "Pat, well don't you know,

GEmA7D

If you don't thin your mortar out, I'm afraid you'll have to go."

GEmCG

So I asked him for me papers, demanded all me pay,

EmEm

And I told him straight I'm gonna emigrate

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to the shores of Botany Bay.

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3.

GEmCG

And when I reach Australia, I'll go and look for gold.

GEmA7D

There's plenty for the diggin' of, or so I have been told.

GEmCG

Or else I'll go back to me trade, a thousand bricks I'll lay.

EmEm

I live for the gift of an eight hour shift

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on the shores of Botany Bay.

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