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Jim Jones At Botany Bay - The Hateful Eight by Soundtracks 🎦

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Intro:
Em

Verse 1:
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Oh listen for a moment lads and hear me tell my tale

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How o'er the sea from England's shore I was compelled to sail

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The jury says he guilty sir and the hanging judge says he

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For life Jim Jones I'm sending you across the stormy sea


Verse 2:
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And take my tip before you ship to join the iron gang

       C               G               Am                    Em      
Don't be too gay at Botany Bay or else you'll surely hang

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Or else you'll surely hang he says and after that Jim Jones

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It's high upon the gallows tree the crows will pick your bones


Verse 3:
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You'll have no chance for mischief there remember what I say

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They'll flog the poaching out of you out there at Botany Bay

     C                   G                Am                 Em       
The waves were high upon the sea the wind blew up in gales

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I'd rather have drowned in misery than come to New South Wales


Verse 4:
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The winds blew high upon the sea and the pirates came along

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But the soldiers on our convict ship were full five hundred strong

      C                 G                    Am              Em     
They opened fire and somehow drove that pirate ship away

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I'd rather joined that pirate ship than come to Botany Bay


Verse 5:
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For night and day the irons clang and like poor galley slaves

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We toil and toil and when we die must fill dishonored graves

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But bye and bye I'll break my chains into the bush I'll go

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And join the bold bushrangers there Jack Donahoo and Co


Verse 6:
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And some dark night when everything is silent in this town

     C                    G                Am                   Em      
I'll kill the tyrants one by one and shoot the floggers down

     C                 G                 Am                Em   
I'll give the law a little shock remember what I say

        Am                   Em                   Am                Em      
They'll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay