{"id":540,"date":"2013-07-18T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=540"},"modified":"2013-07-18T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:18:18","slug":"the-shores-of-botany-bay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=540","title":{"rendered":"The Shores of Botany Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is a wonderfully rich source for incredible songs, traditional and contemporary.\u00a0 This one addresses the emigration of someone willingly looking to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_gold_rushes\" target=\"_blank\">gold rush <\/a>there, rather than so many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Convicts_in_Australia\" target=\"_blank\">penal colony <\/a>songs that recall more somber means of colonization.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\n<b><i>Farewell to your bricks and mortar<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>Farewell to your dirty lime<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>Farewell to your gangers and gang planks<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>And to Hell with your overtime<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>For the good ship Ragamuffin<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>She&#8217;s lying at the quay<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>For to take old Pat with a shovel on his back<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>To the shores of Botany Bay<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on my way down to the quay<br \/>\nWhere the ship at anchor lay<br \/>\nTo command a gang of navvies<br \/>\nThey told me to engage<br \/>\nI thought I\u2019d drop in for a drink<br \/>\nBefore I sailed away<br \/>\nFor to take a trip on an immigrant ship<br \/>\nTo the shores of Botany Bay<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>{The best years of our life we spend at<br \/>\nWorking on the docks<br \/>\nBuilding mighty wharves and quays<br \/>\nOf earth and ballast rocks<br \/>\nThough pensions keep our jobs secure<br \/>\nI shan&#8217;t rue the day<br \/>\nWhen I take a trip on an immigrant ship<br \/>\nTo the shores of Botany Bay}\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (I never seem to recall this verse)<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>The boss comes up this morning<br \/>\nAnd he says to me, &#8220;Hello<br \/>\nIf you don\u2019t mix your mortar right<br \/>\nI\u2019m afraid you\u2019ll have to go&#8221;<br \/>\nWell, since he did insult me<br \/>\nI demanded all me pay<br \/>\nAnd I told him straight I was going to emigrate<br \/>\nTo the shores of Botany Bay<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>When I reach Australia<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll go and dig for gold<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s plenty there for digging up<br \/>\nOr so I have been told<br \/>\nOr maybe I&#8217;ll go back to me trade<br \/>\nEight hundred bricks I&#8217;ll lay<br \/>\nIt\u2019s there I\u2019ll live for the eight hour shift<br \/>\nOn the shores of Botany Bay<\/p>\n<p>Chorus 2x:<\/p>\n<p>The shores of Botany Bay!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is a wonderfully rich source for incredible songs, traditional and contemporary.\u00a0 This one addresses the emigration of someone willingly looking to take part in the gold rush there, rather than so many of the penal colony songs that recall more somber means of colonization. Chorus: Farewell to your bricks and mortar Farewell to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions\/543"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}