Tune/Chords Req: Botany Bay

01 Feb 00 - 05:28 AM (#171577)
Subject: Chord request: botany bay
From: GUEST

If anyone has the music/ chords to botany bay or any other aussie sea shanties i'll be much obliged.

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01 Feb 00 - 05:32 AM (#171579)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chord request: botany bay
From: Brendy

Is that the "Farewell to your bricks and mortar" Botany Bay? There are a few songs with the same title.
B.

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01 Feb 00 - 05:48 AM (#171583)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: BOTANY BAY (from Kate Rusby)
From: Grey Wolf

This is the version Kate Rusby sings, but as Brendy says, there are several others with the same title.

A                     D              A
Farewell to old England forever
       D             A                   E
Farewell to me sweetheart as well
       A                   D                A
Oh, keep me child safe in your arms-oh
  D                  E                   A
I need you like no words can tell

                 D              A
 Too ra lie, ooh ra lie, add a tee
 D             A              E
 Too ra lie, ooh ra lie, ay
 A             D              A
 Too ra lie, ooh ra lie, add a tee
       D           E          A
 I'm sailing to Botany Bay

The captain, he is our commander
He sails by the stars and the sun
If 'er while I live I return again
To my darling's sweet kisses I'd run

For seven long years I'm transported
For seven long years and a day
Oh, I wish I were drowned on the ocean bed
For they've taken my true love away

If I had the wings of a turtle dove
I'd soar o'er me pinions and fly
Oh, I'd fly to the arms of me Polly love
And in her sweet bosom I'd lie

Wolf

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01 Feb 00 - 12:45 PM (#171733)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chord request: botany bay
From: Amos

The other one, which begins "Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your (??) and lime!" can use the same chords with the addition of ..a let's see..F#m...but ye have to slide them around a bit to match the phrasing and all.

A

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01 Feb 00 - 10:56 PM (#172017)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chord request: botany bay
From: BK

I learned a version, long ago, that has the same first line but otherwise most verses are different; The rest of the first verse is: "Farewell to ya numbskulls as well, & farewell to the well-known Old Bailey, where I always did look such a swell." It's got a great line abt bloomin' fat dukes & fat duchesses, etc. If anybody wants,I can get together the rest of the words.

Cheers, BK

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