Bilge Pumps - Botany Bay lyrics

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Farewell to your bricks and mortar farewell to your dirty lime

Farewell to your gangers and gang planks, and to hell with your over time

For the good ship Ragamuffin she's lying at the Quay

To take old Pat with a 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 navvys that they told me to engage

I thought I'd drop in for a drink before I went away

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

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The boss came up this morning, he says "well Pat you know

If you don't get your navvys out I'm afraid you'll have to go"

So I asked him for my wages and demanded all my pay

For I told him straight, I'm going to emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay

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

There's plenty there for the digging of, 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 on the shores of Botany Bay

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