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Jim Jones Lyrics
Artist(Band):Bob Dylan
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1. Come and listen for a moment, lads,
And hear me tell my tale.
How across the sea from England
I was condemned to sail.
Now the jury found me guilty,
Then says the judge, says he,
"Oh, for life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you
Across the stormy sea.
But take a tip before you ship
To join the iron gang.
Don't get too gay in Botany Bay,
Or else you'll surely hang.
Or else you'll surely hang," says he.
"And after that, Jim Jones,
It's high above on the gallows tree
The crows will pick your bones."

2. And our ship was high upon the sea
Then pirates came along,
But the soldiers on our convict ship
Were full five hundred strong.
For they opened fire and somehow drove
That pirate ship away.
But I'd rather have joined that pirate ship
Than gone to Botany Bay.
With the storms ragin' round us,
And the winds a-blowin' gale,
I'd rather have drowned in misery
Than gone to New South Wales.
There's no time for mischief there they say,
Remember that says they
Oh they'll flog the potions out of you
Down there in Botany bay

3. Now it's day and night and the irons clang,
And like poor galley slaves
We toil and toil, and when we die
Must fill dishonored graves,
And it's by and by I'll slip my chains,
Well, into the bush I'll go
And I'll join the bushrangers there,
Jack Donohue and co.
And some dark night, when everything
Is silent in the town
I'll shoot those tyrants one and all,
I'll gun the flogger down.
Oh, I'll give the land a little shock,
Remember what I say,
And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones
In chains to Botany Bay.
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Review about Jim Jones
australian 18th century convict song | Reviewer: Rick | 9/20/2005
    I can see why Dylan would have chosen this song. The song "Jim Jones" was a song which originated from the unimaginable suffering of the convicts transported from England to Australia over 200 years ago and perhaps summed up some of the feelings the convicts had for their oppressors, many of the convicts having been transported for nothing more than stealing a handkerchief , a loaf of bread for their starving families or poaching a rabbit on some rich Lord's lands. The song is one of hopelessness but also of dark brooding anger (see the last verses). A good version but I would love to have heard an oppressed, suffering convict sing it with feeling as they are the ones who wrote it.

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