The Shores of Botany Bay

The Shores of Botany Bay - The Wolfe Tones

Farewell to your bricks and mortar

Farewell to your dirty lies

Farewell to your gangway and your gangplanks

And to hell with your overtime

For the good ship ragamuffin

She's lying at the quay

To take oul' pat with the shovel on his back

To the shores of botany bay

I'm on my way down to the quay

Where the ship at anchor lays

To command a gang of navvies

They told me to engage

Stop don't fall to break

To hall

Tall was bay is quay

For to take a trip on an emigrant ship

To the shores of botany bay

Farewell to your bricks and mortar

Farewell to your dirty lies

Farewell to your gangway and your gangplanks

And to hell with your overtime

For the good ship ragamuffin

She's lying at the quay

To take oul' pat with the shovel on his back

To the shores of botany bay

Turururr

The boss came up this morning

He says

Well pat hello

If you don't get your navvies out

I'm afraid you'll have to go

So I asked him for me vages

We told him come of pay

For I told him straight I'm going to emigrate

To the shores of botany bay

Farewell to your bricks and mortar

Farewell to your dirty lies

Farewell to your gangway and your gangplanks

And to hell with your overtime

For the good ship ragamuffin

She's lying at the quay

To take oul' pat with the shovel on his back

To the shores of botany bay

I went to big shoes

Day dear

I'll go not far go

Banty quay fove taken

I'm so I have been told

If I take a noshin

I'll go back to the see

To take oul' pat with the shovel on his back

To the shores of botany bay

Farewell to your bricks and mortar

Farewell to your dirty lies

Farewell to your gangway and your gangplanks

And to hell with your overtime

For the good ship ragamuffin

She's lying at the quay

To take oul' pat with the shovel on his back

To the shores of botany bay

Farewell to your bricks and mortar

Farewell to your dirty lies

Farewell to your gangway and your gangplanks

And to hell with your overtime

For the good ship ragamuffin

She's lying at the quay

To take oul' pat with the shovel on his back

To the shores of botany bay

Tududududa

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