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Jim Jones Bob Dylan/Traditional Album: Good as i've been to you (1992) Submitted By: Ray Edwards & Stetson Keely
1. Come and liGsten for a moment, lads, And hear me tell my taCle. How acGross the sea from EnDgland I Cwas condemned to sGail. Now the jGury found me guilty, Then says the judge, saysC he, "Oh, fGor life, Jim Jones, ID'm sending you AcCross the stormy sGea. But tCake a tip before you ship To joGin the iron gang. Don't gCet too gay in Botany Bay, Or eGlse you'll surely hDang. Or eGlse you'll surely hang," says he. "And after that, CJim Jones, It's hGigh above on the gaDllows tree The crCows will pick your bGones."
2. And our ship was high upon the sea Then pirates came along, But the soldiers on our convict ship Were full five hundred strong. For they opened fire and somehow drove That pirate ship away. But I'd rather have joined that pirate ship Tan gone to Botany Bay. With the storms ragin' round us, And the winds a-blowin' gale, I'd rather have drowned in misery Than gone to New South Wales. 3. Now it's day and night and the irons clang, And like poor galley slaves We toil and toil, and when we die Must fill dishonored graves, And it's by and by I'll slip my chains, Well, into the bush I'll go And I'll join the bravest rankers there, Jack Donohue and co. And some dark night, when everything Is silent in the town I'll shoot those tyrants one and all, I'll gun the flogger down. Oh, I'll give the land a little shock, Remember what I say, And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones In chains to Botany Bay.