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Botany Bay is a song from the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, a comedy staged in London in 1885 and Melbourne in 1886. The show was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and William Yardley. The song shares two verses with Fairwell to Judges and Juries which had been performed in 1820. Botany Bay was the designated settlement for the first fleet when it arrived in Australia in the eighteenth century. It was a settlement intended for the transport of convicts.

Lyrics

Farewell to old England forever, Farewell to my rum culls as well, Farewell to the well–known Old Bailey Where I used for to cut such a swell. Chorus: Singing too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, Singing too-ral, li-ooral, li-ay, Singing too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, And we're bound for Botany Bay.
   There's the captain as is our commander, There's the bosun and all the ship's crew, There's the first– and the second–class passengers, Knows what we poor convicts go through.
   'Taint leaving old England we cares about, 'Taint cos we mis-spells what we knows, But because all we light–fingered gentry Hops around with a log on our toes.
   These seven long years I've been serving now And seven long more have to stay, All for bashing a bloke down our alley And taking his ticker away.
   Oh had I the wings of a turtle–dove, I'd soar on my pinions so high, Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love, And in her sweet presence I'd die.
   Now all my young Dookies and Dutchesses, Take warning from what I've to say:
Mind all is your own as you toucheses Or you'll find us in Botany Bay.Further Information

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