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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