Jim Jones At Botany Bay

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In the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,  
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We crossed the wide plains of the wild and the free.  
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With the dust in our boots, and the sun in our eyes,  
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We journeyed on forth, 'neath the wide open skies.  

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But the law it was hard, and the days they were long,  
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And I lost my good friends to the wild and the strong.  
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So I penned this sad ballad to tell of our fate,  
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Of the things that we suffered for freedom's gate.   

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Now I stand here alone, by the river so wide,  
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With the ghosts of my comrades all standing beside.  
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And I sing to the night, with a heart full of pain,  
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For the love of my country, I shall sing once again.