01 October 2002
Botany Bay and my Love
MY SWEETIE WILL BE BACK TOMORROW! And I can hardly sit still!!!
;)
That, and I am head over heels into folksongs. I can now say, on a plane, when someone asks me when I tell them I'm a folklorist: "Do you know any good jokes?" "No ma'am/sir, BUT I CAN SING ONE HELL OF A VERSION OF FOGGY DEW OR BOTANY BAY! Come on, dare me!"
Farewell ye picks and mortars,
Farewell ye dirty lies
Farewell to the gangways and the gangplanks
And to hell with overtime!
For the good ship Ragamuffin
Is lying at the Quay.
For to take poor Pat with a shovel on his back
To the shores of the Botany Bay.
Oh!
:)
dandlioneyes at 9:29 pm