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From: zureick@ucunix.san.uc.edu (John H. Zureick)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
Subject: JIM JONES LYRIC
Message-ID: <BxM1Fz.Hw@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:52:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucunix.BxM1Fz.Hw
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Lines: 70
Here are the lyrics for Jim Jones as transcribed by John
Carpenter. Any corrections gladly accepted.
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.
While the jury found me guilty
Then says the judge says he
Over live corndoned I am sending you
Across the stormy sea.
Oh take a trip before you ship
to join the iron gang
Don't get _________ Botney Bay
or else you'll surely hang.
Or else you'll surely hang says he
and after that Jim Jones
Cause high above the gallows tree
The crows will pick your bones.
Now our ship was high upon the sea when
Pirates came along.
But the soldiers on our convict ship were
full 500 strong.
Well they opened fire and somehow drove
that pirate ship away
But I'd rather have joined that
Pirate ship than gone to Botney bay.
With the storms a raging around us
and the winds a blowing gales
I'd rather have drowned in misery
than gone to New South Wales.
There's no time for mischief as they say
Remember that says they
For they'll flog the person out of you
Down there in Botney Bay.
So its day and night the irons clang and
Like poor galley slaves
We toil and toil and when we die
must fill this haunted grave.
Well by and by I'll strip my chains
into the bush I'll go
I'll join the bravest rangers there
Jack Donahoe and Co.
And sometime the night and everything
is silent in the town
I'll slit those tyrants one and all
I'll gun the floggers down.
Oh I'll give the law a little shock
to remeber what I say
and then yet regret they sent
Jim Jones in chains to Botney Bay.
--
John H. Zureick zureick@ucunix.san.uc.edu