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Botany Bay

Traditional Irish
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 NOTE: The key of  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---|
 x4
Farewell  to your bricks and  mortar, farewell  to your dirty  lies
Farewell  to your gangers and  gang planks and to hell  with your overtime
 The good  ship Ragamuffin  she's lying at  the Quay
 For to take  oul Pat with his shovel  on his back
  ---->
 To the shores of Botany Bay
 x4
 (Away........)
 Same thing, but different Lyrics:
 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
 (Farewell to your... etc etc)
 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
 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
 The End! (on )

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Readable chord sheet for Botany Bay by Traditional Irish

NOTE: The key of [D] 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---|

[D]   [Bm]   [G] [A] [D]

[D] x4

[D]Farewell to your bricks an[Bm]d mortar, f[G]arewell to your [A]dirty l[D]ies
[D]Farewell to your gangers a[Bm]nd gang planks and to h[Esus4]ell with your overtime
The [D]good ship Raga[Bm]muffin she's [G]lying [A]at the [D]Quay
For to t[D]ake oul Pat with his s[Bm]hovel on his back
  [Bm]---->
To the shores of Botany Bay

[D] x4
(Away........)

Same thing, but different Lyrics:

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

(Farewell to your... etc etc)

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

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

The End! (on [D])

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