
Date of issue: 16.02.2017
Song language: English
Jim Jones |
Come and listen for a moment lads and hear me tell my tale |
How across the sea from England I was condemned to sail |
The jury found me guilty and says the judge, says he |
«For life, Jim Jones, I’m sending you across the stormy sea |
You’ll take a trip on a convict ship, you’ll join the iron gang |
Don’t get too gay in Botany Bay or else you’ll surely hang |
Or else you’ll surely hang, «he says, «and after that, Jim Jones |
It’s high upon the gallows tree, the crows will pick your bones» |
Our ship was high upon the sea when pirates came along |
But the soldiers on our convict ship were full five hundred strong |
They opened fire and somehow drove that pirate ship away |
But I’d rather have joined that pirate ship than have gone to Botany Bay |
With the storms a ragin' round me and the wind a blowin' gale |
I’d rather have drowned in misery than have gone to New South Wales |
There’s no time for mischief there they say, remember that says they |
They’ll flog the poaching out of you down there in Botany Bay |
Now it’s day and night and the irons clang and like poor galley slaves |
We toil and toil, and when we die, we must fill dishonoured graves |
But it’s by and by I’ll slip my chains and to the bush I’ll go |
And I’ll join the brave bushrangers there, Jack Donohue and Co |
And some dark night, when everything is silent in the town |
I’ll shoot those tyrants one and all I’ll gun the floggers down |
I’ll give the law no little shock remember what I say |
They’ll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay |
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