The Shores of Botany Bay
Trad.


[intro]
Bm . . . |Bm . . . |Bm . |A . |G . |A . |

[chorus]
    D                       Bm
Farewell to your bricks and mortar
    G           A      D
Farewell to your dirty lime
    D                    Bm
Farewell to your gangers and your gang planks
       E7                 A
And to hell with your overtime
        D              Bm
For the good ship Ragamuffin
   G     A      D
Is lying at the quay
       Bm
For to take old Pat with a shovel on his back
       Bm        A      G   A
To the shores of Botany Bay




      D                     Bm
While on my way down to the quay
          G       A      D
Where the ship at anchor lay
      D              Bm             E7            A
To command a gang of navvies that I was told to engage
  D                 Bm              G      A    D
I stopped in for to drink a while before I go away
       Bm 
For to take a trip on an immigrant ship
   Bm        A      G    A
To shores of Botany Bay


[repeat chorus]


      D                     Bm
Well the boss came up this mornin' 
       G           A     D
And he said "Well, Pat y'know, 
       D                Bm          
If you didn't get those navvies out, 
      E7                 A
I'm afraid you'll 'ave t'go" 
     D                Bm
So I asked 'im for me wages 
      G      A      D
And demanded all me pay 
      Bm
And I told 'im straight, we would immigrate 
Bm               A      G    A
To the shores of Botany Bay



[repeat chorus]


    D                Bm
And when I reach Australia, 
     G      A          D
I'll go and search for gold
        D                Bm         
There's plenty there for diggin' up, 
   E7             A
Or so I have been told, 
   D                 Bm
Or else I'll go back to me trade 
      G       A           D
And a hundred bricks I'll lay,
   Bm
Because I live for an eight hour shift 
Bm               A      G    A
On the shores of Botany Bay



[repeat chorus x 2]