Botany Bay Lyrics & Chords By Paddy Goes To Holyhead

Botany Bay
Me name is Pat O´Leary
I´m a navvy lad from Cork
Me boss he is a bastard
I´m sic kof his piece-work
I´ll sail to dear Australiato the fucking Olympic Games
So that´s my fate I´m going to emigrateto the shores of Botany Bay
I´m on my way down to the quaywhere the ship at anchor lays
To command a gang of navviesthey told me to engage
I though I´d drop in for a drinkbefore I sail away
For to take a trip on an emigrant shipto the shores of Botany Bay
The boss came up this morninghe 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 vagesand I demanded all me pay
For I told him straight I´m going to emigrateto the shores of Botany Bay
And when I reach Australia
I´ll go and I look for gold
There´s plenty there for digging offor so I have been told
Or else I go back to me tradeand a hundred bricks I lay
Because I live for an eight-hour-shifton the shores of Botany Bay
Farewell to your bricks and mortarfarewell to your dirty lies
Farewell to your gangway and your gangplanksand to hell with your overtime
For the good ship Ragamuffinshe´s lying at the Quay
To take oul´ Pat with the shovel on his backto the shores of Botany Bay