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'Botany Bay' or 'Bound for Botany Bay' is a classic Australian folk song.
On the 29th April 1770 a British ship named the Endeavour, under the command of Captain James Cook, anchored in what was later named Botany Bay. The first fleet, with its eleven vessels, landed in Botany Bay on January 19, 1788. They carried about 730 convicts and 250 free settlers. Today Botany Bay is surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney.
This song was written about a time when even a small crime could get you a sentence of seven years and shipped off to Australia as a convict. The song talks about this in the first verse and finishes in the last verse with a warning to boys and girls (Dookies and Duchesses) not to steal or they'll wind up in Botany Bay.
Available at bearing.bandcamp.com
'Botany Bay' or 'Bound for Botany Bay' is a classic Australian folk song.
On the 29th April 1770 a British ship named the Endeavour, under the command of Captain James Cook, anchored in what was later named Botany Bay. The first fleet, with its eleven vessels, landed in Botany Bay on January 19, 1788. They carried about 730 convicts and 250 free settlers. Today Botany Bay is surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney.
This song was written about a time when even a small crime could get you a sentence of seven years and shipped off to Australia as a convict. The song talks about this in the first verse and finishes in the last verse with a warning to boys and girls (Dookies and Duchesses) not to steal or they'll wind up in Botany Bay.
