The Shores Of Botany Bay

G Em C G Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime Em A7 D Farewell to your gangways and your gangplanks and to hell with your overtime G Em C G For the good ship Raggamuffin is lying at the quay Em D For to take old Pat with a shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay G Em C G I'm on my way down to the quay, where the ship at anchor lay Em A7 D To command a gang of navvies that they told me to engage G Em C G I thought I would stop in awhile before I went away Em D For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay G Em C G Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime Em A7 D Farewell to your gangways and your gangplanks and to hell with your overtime G Em C G For the good ship Raggamuffin is lying at the quay Em D For to take old Pat with a shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay G Em C G The boss comes up this morning and he says to me "hello Em A7 D If you don't mix your mortar right, I'm afraid you'll have to go" G Em C G Well, since he did insult me, I demanded all my pay Em D And I told him straight I was gonna emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay G Em C G Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime Em A7 D Farewell to your gangways and your gangplanks and to hell with your overtime G Em C G For the good ship Raggamuffin is lying at the quay Em D For to take old Pat with a shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay G Em C G And when I reach Australia, I'll go and dig for gold Em A7 D There's plenty there for the digging up or so I have been told G Em C G Or else I'll go back to my trade and a hundred bricks I'll lay Em D Eight bob I'll lift for an eight hour shift on the shores of Botany Bay G Em C G Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime Em A7 D Farewell to your gangways and your gangplanks and to hell with your overtime G Em C G For the good ship Raggamuffin is lying at the quay Em D G For to take old Pat with a shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay