Botany Bay Lyrics

Sining tour a lie your a lie addy
Sining tour a lie your a lie hey ey
Singing tour a lie your a lie addy
I'm bound for botany bay

Farewell to my friends and my homeland
Fermanagh, Tyrone, Donegal
Farewell to the green fields of Ireland
For today I am leaving you all

Sining tour a lie your a lie addy
Sining tour a lie your a lie hey ey
Singing tour a lie your a lie addy
I'm bound for botany bay

We're standing in line altogether
Our passports and visas in hand
And we pray that it won't be forever
But today we are leaving this land

There's friends here from Galway and Sligo
Leitrim, Rosscommon, Mayo
Dublin and Cork and Tipperary
But not one of us wishes to go

Sining tour a lie your a lie addy
Sining tour a lie your a lie hey ey
Singing tour a lie your a lie addy
I'm bound for botany bay

It's not on a tall ship we're leaving
A big plane will take us away
But one day the tide will be turning
We will all return home someday

But it's now time to say 'Slan Abhaile'
Australia is calling today
So together let's sing the comalya
For we're bound for botany bay

Sining tour a lie your a lie addy
Sining tour a lie your a lie hey ey
Singing tour a lie your a lie addy
I'm bound for botany bay

Singing tour a lie your a lie addy
I'm bound for botany bay