The Shores of Botany Bay - The Wolfe Tones

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´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

I though I´d drop in for a drink

before I sail away

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

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

and I demanded all me 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

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