Jim Jones in Botany Bay-Martin Carthy

[00:00.000] 作词 : Traditional [00:01.000] 作曲 : Carthy Martin [00:06.32]Oh come listen for a moment lads and hear me tell my tale [00:13.75]How o'er the seas from England I was condemned to sail [00:20.65]The jury found me guilty And says the judge, says he: [00:26.21]"Oh, for life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you across the raging sea [00:34.25]And take my tip before you ship to join the iron gang: [00:41.69]Don't get too gay on Botany Bay or else you'll surely hang [00:49.31]Or else you'll hang," he says, says he, "And after that Jim Jones [00:55.79]It is high upon the gallows tree The crows will pick your bones [01:03.30]You'll have no chance for mischief there, remember what I say: [01:10.59]They'll flog the poaching out of you out there on Botany Bay [01:18.50]Let the wind fly in torrents and the wind blow up in gales: [01:24.48]Oh I'd rather die in misery than go to New South Wales [01:33.13]Well, the sea it flew in torrents and the pirates came along [01:40.69]But the soldiers all on board our ship, they were full five hundred strong [01:48.99]They opened fire and soon they drove that pirate ship away [01:55.01]Oh I'd rather have gone on a pirate ship than gone to Botany Bay [02:03.69]Where day and night the irons clang and like poor galley slaves [02:11.49]We toil and toil and when we die we fill dishonoured graves [02:19.79]But by and by I'll break my chains and into the bush I'll go [02:26.38]And I'll join the brave bushrangers there, Jack Donahue and Co [02:35.05]And one dark night when everything is silent in the town [02:42.80]I'll kill the tyrants one by one and I'll shoot the floggers down [02:51.17]I'll give the law one little shock; remember what I say: [02:57.25]Oh they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay