Jim Jones at Botany Bay - A.L. Lloyd.mp3

Jim Jones at Botany Bay - A.L. Lloyd.mp3
Jim Jones at Botany Bay - A.L. Lloyd
[00:09.99]Oh, listen for ...
[00:09.99]Oh, listen for a moment, lads, and hear me tell me tale
[00:16.77]How o'er the sea from England's shore I was obliged to sail
[00:23.55]The jury says: “He's guilty, sir,” and says the judge, says he:
[00:30.99]“For life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you across the stormy sea
[00:42.27]And take my tip before you ship to join the iron gang
[00:49.05]Don't be too gay at Botany Bay or else you'll surely hang
[00:54.69]Or else you'll surely hang,“ says he, “and after that, Jim Jones
[01:03.87]High upon the gallows tree the crows will pick your bones
[01:10.17]You'll have no chance for mischief then, remember what I say:
[01:16.71]They'll flog the poaching out of you down there at Botany Bay.”
[01:26.70]The wind blew high upon the sea and the pirates come along
[01:33.12]But the soldiers in our convict ship was nigh five hundred strong
[01:40.38]They opened fire and somehow drove that pirate ship away
[01:46.53]I'd rather have joined the skull-and-bones than go to Botany Bay
[01:56.40]Now night and day the irons clang, and like poor galley-slaves
[02:03.57]We toil and strive and when we die, we fill dishonoured graces
[02:10.80]But by and by I'll break me chains and to the bush I'll go
[02:17.61]And join the brave bushrangers there like Donahue and Co
[02:27.66]And some dark night when everything is silent in the town
[02:34.74]I'll kill them tyrants one by one and shoot the floggers down
[02:41.82]I'll give the law a little shock, remember what I say
[02:48.27]They'll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay
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