[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies,
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ships Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Verse]
I was on me way down to the quay, where the ship that I could lay,
To command a gang of navvies, that they told me to engage,
I thought I'd drop in for a drink, before I went away,
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 lies,
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ships Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Verse]
Now the boss came up this morning, he says, "Well Pat, you know,
If you don't get your navvies out, I'm afraid you'll have to go",
So I asked him for me wages and demanded all me pay,
And I told him straight that I'm going emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies,
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ships Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.

[Verse]
And when I reach Australia, I'll go and dig for gold,
There's plenty there for digging up or so I have been told,
Or else I'll go back into me trade and eight hundred bricks I'll lay,
Because I'll live for an eight hour shift on the shores of Botany Bay.

[Chorus]
Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies,
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ships Ragamuffin, she's 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 lies,
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ships Ragamuffin, she's 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 lies,
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ships Ragamuffin, she's 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 lies,
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks and to hell with your overtime,
For the good ships Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay,
For to take old Pat with the shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.