[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime,
Farewell to your gangers and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Verse]
I'm on me way down to the quay, where the good ship lies in the bay,
For to command a gang of navvies, I was told to engage,
I stopped in for to drink a while, thought it was okay,
For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime,
Farewell to your gangers and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Verse]
Well the foreman called this morning, he said, "Well Pat, hello,
If you didn't get them navvies out, I'm afraid you'll have to go",
I asked him for me wages, he told me, "Go away",
Then I told him straight I would emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime,
Farewell to your gangers and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Verse]
And when we reach Australia, I'll go and look for gold,
There's plenty there for digging up or so I have been told,
Or if I take a notion, I'll go back to the seas,
To take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime,
Farewell to your gangers and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime,
Farewell to your gangers and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.