Premium Only Content

Shores of Botany Bay
While searching for versions of the 'Eugowra Hold-Up', I realized that A.L.Lloyd had used the melody for this song to set the existing lyrics (with a chorus lifted from a different bush ranger ballad).
The origins of this song are hazy, it appears in John Meredith's 'Folk Songs of Australia' from 1968:
https://archive.org/details/folksongsofaustr0000unse
Meredith says that Duke Tritton learned it while busking in Sydney. This is repeated here:
http://ozfolksongaday.blogspot.com/2011/03/shores-of-botany-bay.html
Tommy Makem, the Wolfe Tones and The Irish Rovers all recorded this song.
Bob Bolton has some good words on this thread:
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=9340
Images from here:
https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/emigrating
Purchase my music:
Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/
-
4:17:17
VapinGamers
10 hours ago $5.64 earned📣 Fortnite Family Night! - Games and Dubs with BrianZGame - !rumbot
49.1K3 -
4:27:48
ThePope_Live
9 hours agoLIVE - First time playing The Finals in over a YEAR! Still good? with @Arrowthorn
37.6K1 -
3:06:26
TruthStream with Joe and Scott
14 hours agoRoundtable with Patriot Underground and News Treason Live 4/26 5pm pacific 8pm Eastern
61.5K37 -
8:52
Tundra Tactical
12 hours ago $10.30 earnedSCOTUS Denies Appeal, Minnesota Courts Deal 2a Win!
59.4K12 -
10:36:01
a12cat34dog
14 hours agoONE WITH THE DARK & SHADOWS :: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered :: FIRST-TIME PLAYING {18+}
82.8K7 -
22:27
Exploring With Nug
21 hours ago $13.00 earnedSwamp Yields a Chilling Discovery in 40-Year Search for Missing Man!
71.2K25 -
1:23:26
RiftTV/Slightly Offensive
15 hours ago $12.37 earnedThe LUCRATIVE Side of Programming and the SECRETS of the "Tech Right" | Guest: Hunter Isaacson
75.6K37 -
27:57
MYLUNCHBREAK CHANNEL PAGE
1 day agoDams Destroyed India
78.8K26 -
11:42:02
Phyxicx
16 hours agoLast minute practice before Sunday - 4/26/2025
57.7K3 -
LIVE
The Official Steve Harvey
10 days ago $5.17 earned24 HOURS OF MOTIVATION w/ STEVE HARVEY
27 watching