Тональность: C major•
Verse 1
C
Come and listen for a moment, lads
Am
C
F
And hear me tell my tale
C
G
How across the sea from England
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G
I was condemned to sail
C
Now the jury found me guilty
Am
C
F
Then says the judge, says he
C
"Oh, for life, Jim Jones,
F
C
Csus4
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Across the stormy sea
F
But take a tip before you ship
C
To join the iron gang
F
Don't get too gay in Botany Bay
C
G
Or else you'll surely hang
C
Or else you'll surely hang," says he
F
"And after that, Jim Jones
C
G
It's high above on the gallows tree
F
The crows will pick your bones"
Interlude 1
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F
C
G
Verse 2
C
And our ship was high upon the sea
F
When pirates came along
C
F
C
G
But the soldiers on our convict ship
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G
Were full five hundred strong
C
For they opened fire and somehow drove
F
That pirate ship away
C
But I'd rather have joined
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G
C
Csus4
C
Than gone to Botany Bay
F
With the storms ragin' round us
C
And the winds a-blowin' gale
gale
F
I'd rather have drowned in misery
C
G
Than gone to New South Wales
C
There's no time for mischief
there they say
F
Remember that, says they
F
Down there in Botany Bay
Interlude 2
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G
F
C
G
Verse 3
C
Now it's day and night
and the irons clang
F
And like poor galley slaves
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Csus4
C
G
We toil and toil, and when we die
F
G
Must fill dishonored graves
C
And it's by and by I'll slip my chains
F
Into the bush I'll go
C
G
And I'll join the bravest rankers there
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G
C
Jack Donohue and co
F
And some dark night, when everything
C
Is silent in the town
F
I'll shoot those tyrants one and all
C
G
I'll gun the floggers down
C
Oh, I'll give the land a little shock
C
And they'll yet regret
G
they've sent Jim Jones
F
C
In chains to Botany Bay
Outro 1
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C
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C
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