Blaggards - Botany Bay Lyrics
Arewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty liesFarewell to your gangers and gang planks, to hell with your overtimeFor the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quayTo take oul Pat with a shovel on his backTo the shores of Botany Bay.I'm on my way down to the quay where the ship at anchor laysTo command a gang of navvys that they told me to engageI thought I'd drop in for a drink before I went awayFor to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany BayFarewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty liesFarewell to your gangers and gang planks, to hell with your overtimeFor the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quayTo take oul Pat with a shovel on his backTo the shores of Botany Bay.The boss came up this morning, he says "well Pat you knowIf you don't get your navvys out I'm afraid you have to go"So I asked him for me wages and demanded all my payFor I told him straight, I'm going to emigrate to the shores of Botany BayFarewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty liesFarewell to your gangers and gang planks, to hell with your overtimeFor the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quayTo take oul Pat with a shovel on his backTo the shores of Botany Bay.And when I reach Australia I'll go and look for goldThere's plenty there for the digging of, or so I have been toldOr else I'll go back to my trade and a hundred bricks I'll layBecause I live for an eight hour shift on the shores of Botany Bay
