86 Botany Bay
Tune Analysis: Heptatonic, E Aeolian.
Sheet Music (1916) File:86BotBay 1916 Sheet Music.pdf
Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) File:86BotBay 1916 Note.pdf
MIDI Sequence File:86BotBay.mid
Music XML File:86BotBay.xml
ABC Code:
X:86
T:86 Botany Bay
P:Collected by Cecil J. Sharp
C:From 'One Hundred English Folk Songs' (1916)
Z:Transcribed by Lewis Jones
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w: Come|all young * men of|learn- ing * good a *|warn\- * ing * take by|me, I'll *|have you quit * night *|
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w: walk\- * ing and|shun bad comp- a\- *|y; I'll *|have you quit * night *|walk\- * ing or|else you'll rue * the *|
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w: day, And|you will be trans-|por\- * * ted and *|go * to * Bot- an- y|Bay.|
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W:1 Come, all young men of learning good, a warning take by me.
W:I'll have you quit night-walking and shun bad company;
W:I'll have you quit night-walking or else you'll rue the day,
W:And you will be transported and go to Botany Bay.
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W:2 I was brought up in London town, a place I know full well;
W:Brought up by honest parents, the truth to you I'll tell.
W:Brought up by honest parents, who loved me tenderly,
W:Till I became a roving blade to prove my destiny.
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W:3 My character was taken, and I was sent to gaol.
W:My parents tried to clear me but nothing would prevail.
W:'Twas at our Rutland sessions the Judge to me did say:
W:The Jury's found you guilty, you must go to Botany Bay.
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W:4 To see my poor old father as he stood at the bar;
W:Likewise my dear old mother her old gray locks she tore.
W:And in tearing of her old gray locks these words to me she did say:
W:O son! O son! what hast thou done? Thou art bound for Botany Bay.
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W:NOTE
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W:I do not know of any published versions of this song. I made use of the tune in Mr. Granville Barker's production of
W:Hardy's 'Dynasts,' setting the words of the "Trafalgar" song to it.
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