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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 liFsten for a moment, lads, And hear me tell my taFle. How acFross the sea from EnGgland I Fwas condemned to sFail. Now the jFury found me guilty, Then says the judge, saysF he, "Oh, fFor life, Jim Jones, IG'm sending you AcFross the stormy sFea. But tFake a tip before you ship To joFin the iron gang. Don't gFet too gay in Botany Bay, Or eFlse you'll surely hGang. Or eFlse you'll surely hang," says he. "And after that, FJim Jones, It's hFigh above on the gaGllows tree The crFows will pick your bFones."
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.