BOTANY BAY; Traditional Irish/Australian

NOTE: The key of D5 is my own personal choice.

NOTE2: It's quite fastforward, I'd recomend lissening to a youtube-cover to get the right tempo.

Note 3: I'm not really sureif the "E4" is called a E4, but you grab it like this:   

e | ---0--- | 
B | ---0--- | 
G | ---1--- | 
D | ---2--- | 
A | ---0--- | 
E | ---0--- | 

Intro:

D5   B5   G5 A5 D5

D5 x4

Chorus:

D5                         B5         G5               A5      D5
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies
D5                         B5                     E5                 
Farewell to your gangers and gang planks and to hell with your overtime
    D5             B5           G5     A5      D5
The good ship Ragamuffin she's lying at the Quay
      D5                     B5
For to take oul Pat with his shovel on his back
  Bm---->
To the shores of Botany Bay

D5 x4
(Away........)

Same thing, but different Lyrics:

Verse 1:

I'm on my way down to the Quay where the ship at anchor lies
To command a gang of navvys that they told me to engage
I thought I'd drop in for a drink before I went away
For to take a trip on an emigrant ship
To the shores of Botany Bay

Chorus: (Farewell to your... etc etc)

Verse 2:

The boss came up this morning, he says "well Pat, you know
If you don't get your navvys out, I'm afraid you'll have to go"
So I asked him for my wages and demanded all my pay
For I told him straight, I'm going to emigrate
To the shores of Botany Bay

Chorus

Verse 3:

And when I reach Australia I'll go and look for gold
There's plenty there for the digging of, or so I have been told
Or else I'll go back to my trade and a hundred bricks I'll lay
Because I live for an eight hour shift
On the shores of Botany Bay

Chorus:

The End! (on D5 )
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