Botany Bay (III)

DESCRIPTION: "Let us drink good health to our schemers above, Who at length have contrived from this land to remove Thieves, robbers...." who are sent to Botany Bay. The singer describes all the sorts of people who will be transported and hints at their life there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland), from a broadside estimated to date from 1790
KEYWORDS: transportation crime punishment travel
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REFERENCES (5 citations):
Anderson-StoryOfAustralianFolksong, pp. 8-10, "Botany Bay III" (1 text, 1 tune)
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 33-35, "Botany Bay, a New Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ward-PenguinBookOfAustralianBallads, pp. 24-26, "Botany Bay, A New Song" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Geoffrey C. Ingleton, _True Patriots All: or News from Early Australia as told in A Collection of Broadsides_ ("Garnered and Decorated" by Ingleton), Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988, pp. 8-9, "Botany Bay: A New Song" (1 text)
Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, pp. 95-96, "Botany Bay, a New Song" (1 text, with tune on p. 549)
Roud #V27861
File: SAFS008

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