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Botany Bay
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Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingna
Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards.
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World • Traditional Celtic
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Peak #167
Peak in subgenre #15
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Traditional
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Marc Gunn
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May 30, 2008
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MP3 4.5 MB • 192 kbps • 3:16
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Farewell to your bricks and mortar, Farewell to your dirty lies. Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks, And to hell with your overtime. For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the Quay, For to take poor Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay. Well I'm on my way down to the quay where the ship at anchor lays To command a gang of navys that I was told to engage I stopped in for to drink awhile before I go away. For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay. Well the boss came up this morning, and he said "Well now Pat you know If you didn't get those navvys out I'm afraid you'll have to go" So I asked him for my wages and demanded all my pay And I told him straight, I'm gonna emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay. And when I reach Australia I'll go and search for gold. There's plenty there for a'digging, 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. verse/chorus: Bm Bm G D Bm Bm A A Bm Bm G D Bm Bm D A
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