12-string Guitar: Botany Bay
Posted by admin on Jun 10, 2010
Botany Bay is a song from the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, a comedy staged in London, England in 1885 and Melbourne, Australia in 1886. The show was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and William Yardley, though the music for “Botany Bay” was written by Florian Pascal a pseudonym for Joseph Williams, Jr. (1847-1923), a music publisher and composer. It has become an adopted Australian song with its story of how convicts were transported in unpleasant circumstances to say the least to the penal colonies in that country and in particular, Botany Bay itself.
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nice version
Thank you, glad you liked it.
We have a wildlife management area called Botany Bay here, I can see you on the porch out there singing this… thanks for sharing!