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Norbert and Gesa Lyr Req: Botany Bay + Don't Come Again (9) Lyr Add: BOTANY BAY 19 Dec 99


Hallo Earl Gray
Here are the lyrics to Botany Bay:

BOTANY BAY

CHORUS: Farewell to bricks and mortar.
Farewell to your dirty lies.
Farewell to your gangways and your gangplanks
And to hell with your overtime.
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the Quay
For to take out Pat with a shovel on his back
To the shores of Botany Bay.

While on my way down to the quay where the ship at anchor lays
To command a gang of navvies that I was told to engage
I stopped in for to drink awhile before I go away
For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay.
CHORUS: Farewell to bricks and mortar...

Well the boss came up this morning, and he said "Well Pat you know
If you didn’t get those navvies out I'm afraid you’ll have to go "
So I asked him for my wages and demanded all my pay
And I told him straight, we would all emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay
CHORUS: Farewell to bricks and mortar...

And when I reach Australia I’ll go and search for gold
There’s plenty there for digging up, or so I have been told
Or else I’ll go back to my trade and a hundred bricks I’ll lay
Because I live for an eight hour shift to the shores of Botany Bay.
CHORUS: Farewell to bricks and mortar...


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