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BOB DYLAN lyrics : "Jim Jones"


Come and listen for a moment, lads
And hear me tell my tale

How across the sea from England
I was condemned to sail
Now the jury found me guilty

Then says the judge, says he
"Oh, for life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you
Across the stormy sea

But take a tip before you ship
To join the iron gang
Don't get too gay in Botany Bay

Or else you'll surely hang
Or else you'll surely hang", says he
"And after that Jim Jones

It's high above on the gallows tree
The crows will pick your bones".


And our ship was high upon the sea
When 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
Than 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

There's no time for mischief there they say
Remember that, says they
Or they'll flog the poaching out of you

Down there in Botany Bay.

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 floggers down
Oh, I'll give the land a little shock

Remember what I say
They'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones
In chains to Botany Bay.

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