020. Botany Bay

Botany Bay                                       

Farewell to old England forever       
Farewell to my rum culls as well   
Farewell to the well known Old Bailey
Where I used for to cut such a swell

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Singing Too-ra-Li oo-ra-li addity
Singing too-ra-li oo-ra-li ay                 
Singing too-ra-li oo-ra-li addity
For we're bound for Botany Bay


There's the captain as is our Commander
There's the bosun and all the ship's crew
There's the first and the second class passengers
Knows what we poor convicts go through

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't Ain't leaving old England we cares about
't Ain't cos we misspells what we knows
But because all we light fingered gentry
Hops around with a log on our toes

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For seven long years I'll be staying here
For seven long years and a day
Just for bashing a bloke in the area
And taking his ticker away

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Oh, had I the wings of a turtle dove
I'd soar on my pinions so high
Slap bang to the arms of my Polly Love
And in her sweet bosom I'd lie

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Now, all my young Dookies and Dutchesses
Take warning from what I've to say
Mind all is your own as you toucheses
Or you'll find us in Botany Bay. 

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