Botany Bay - Nathan Carter

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