Botany Bay (IV -- Come All You Young Fellows)

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you young fellows Whoever that you be, Who delight in a song, Join chorus with me." The singer describes "some poor lads Who were sent to Botany Bay." One girl tries to buy a man release. But they are put on the coach to start their journey
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland); Anderson estimates his broadside as c. 1820
KEYWORDS: exile transportation separation love money floatingverses
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 37-38, "Botany Bay" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 22, "A New Song Made upon the Lads sent to Botany Bay"; p. 134, "Botany Bay" (2 texts, with tunes on pp. 536, 555)
Roud #261
NOTES [75 words]: Roud appears to lump this with Laws L16, "The Boston Burglar," which has versions about transportation to Botany Bay. But this is clearly a separate song. It does have some similar characteristics, but if lyrics floated in from somewhere else, the other song appears to be "Logan County Jail (Dallas County Jail)" [Laws E17], which also has the verses about the criminal's girl bringing in all the money she can raise to try to earn his release. - RBW
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