The Shores of Botany Bay – The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Tab’d by wompton
Make sure to hit that D at the end of each section just a second before going into the next.
[CHORUS]
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
[VERSE 1]
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
[CHORUS]
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
[VERSE 2]
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
[CHORUS]
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
[VERSE 3]
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
[CHORUS]
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
