Bob Dylan – Jim Jones (Guitar)

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Come and listen for a moment, lads,

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And hear me tell my tale.

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How across the sea from England

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I was condemned to sail.

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Now the jury found me  guilty,

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Then says the judge, says he,

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"Oh, for life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you

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Across the stormy sea.

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But take a tip before you ship

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To join the iron gang.

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Don't get too gay in Botany Bay,

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Or else you'll surely  hang.

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Or else you'll surely    hang," says he.

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"And after that, Jim Jones,

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It's high up upon the gallows tree

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The crows will pick your bones."

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Well our ship was high upon the sea

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when pirates came along,

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But the soldiers on our convict ship

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Were full five hundred strong.

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For they opened fire and somehow drove

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That pirate ship away.

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But I'd rather have joined that pirate ship

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Than gone to Botany Bay.

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With the storms ragin' round us,

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And the winds a-blowin' gales,

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I'd rather have drowned in misery

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Than gone to New South Wales.

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There's no time for mischief there, they say

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remember that says they

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oh they'll flog the poaching out of you

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down there in Botany Bay

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Now it's day and night and the irons clang,

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And like poor galley slaves

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We toil and toil, and when we die

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Must fill dishonored graves,

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And it's by and by I'll slip my chains,

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Well, into the bush I'll go

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And I'll join the brave bush rangers there,

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Jack Donohue and co.

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And some dark night, when everything

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Is silent in the town

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I'll shoot those tyrants one and all,

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I'll gun the flogger down.

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

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Remember what I say,

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And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones

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In chains to Botany Bay.