Botany Bay

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

Singing Tooral liooral liaddity

Singing Tooral liooral liay

Singing Tooral liooral liaddity

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