Botany

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Silver Birch, Canoes and Conifers

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PBS – The Botany of Desire www.pbs.org www.pbs.org PDF: www.pbs.org

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Botany Bay is in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Botany Bay was where Captain James Cook landed when he reached Australia in April 1770. The area was a British penal colony for years. Now there is a beautiful reserve there and lots of bush trails. It makes for a very lovely day trip if you are visiting Sydney.

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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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Botany Bay: Farewell to Old England forever Farewell to my old culls as well Farewell to the well known Old Bailey Where I once used to be such a swell Where I once used to be such a swell. Chorus Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-ay. Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-ay. There’s the captain as is our commandeer, There’s bo’sun and all the ship’s crew There’s first and the second class passengers, Knows what we poor convicts goes through Knows what we poor convicts goes through. ‘Tain’t leaving Old England we cares about, ‘Tain’t ‘cos we mispells wot we knows, But becos all we light finger’d gentry Hop’s around with a log on our toes. Hop’s around with a log on our toes. For fourteen long years I have ser-vi-ed, And for fourteen long years and a day, For meeting a bloke in the area, And sneaking his ticker away. And sneaking his ticker away. Oh had I the wings of a turtle-dove, I’d soar on my pinions so high, Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love, And in her sweet presence I’d die And in her sweet presence I’d die. Now all my young Dook-ies and Duch-ess-es, Take warning from what I’ve to say: Mind all is your own as you touch-es-es, Or you’ll find us in Botany Bay, Or you’ll find us in Botany Bay.

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Unison Dance Crew @ Botany Hip Hop Work For Charity Event 2009 Big Upps To These Dudes :]

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The Shore’s of Botany Bay.Paddy Reilly.

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Archie Meaney live in Paddy Murphy’s Irish pub in Playa del Ingles (Gran Canaria), June 2005. Today Archie plays in the Dunes & Tunes Irish beach bar on the beach promenade in Playa del Ingles, GC. Lyrics: Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies Farewell to your gangers and gang planks And to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she’s lying at the quay For to take oul Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay I’m on my way down to the quay, where the ship at anchor lays To command a gang of navvys, that they told me to engage I thought I’d drop in for a drink before I went away For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies Farewell to your gangers and gang planks And to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she’s lying at the quay For to take oul Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay The boss came up this morning, he says “Well, Pat you know If you don’t get your navvys out, I’m afraid you’ll have to go” So I asked him for my wages and demanded all my pay For I told him straight, I’m going to emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies Farewell to your gangers and gang planks And to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she’s lying at the quay For to take oul Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay And when …

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