Bound for Botany Bay (Stereo)

[imdaashun]

Any FREE sheet music violin ? please :(

[ljmuzza]

who else sang this in primary school?

[myfingerstyley]

What is this? Sounds like a nusery rhyme. This is a song about going to prison.

[Boonari]

The picture is it Innamincka? HA ha ha ...it is bloody far to go from Botany Bay

[lancesta01]

Would make a sick pub song...!! gotta sing this in a pub when im older enough ahah!

[Lillyvon]

Watching the picture for so long, I keep expecting John Jarrett to appear chasing back packers. 'Head on a stick'.

[sooouuuuper]

why why why did rumpy send me this ???

[sirfeathersmcgraw]

I'm proud to be an Aussie. I'm also proud that people from other parts of the world find Australia so appealing that they choose to live here. Australia has embraced lots of immigrants over the past 100+ years, and guess what... children still sing this song at school, the gum trees are still growing and Dubbo is still dry! Great songs like this do not need a racist defence.

[DavidRNAU]

Mate....it looks like your a hell of a long way from Botany Bay with that shot for the song

[thunzie]

Proud to be an Aussie or what?

[TravisCallaghan]

@nerdzieat, i completely agree. if indians and middle easterns want to come to australia they should adapt to the way of australia not take over our hole of australian identity with their burquas etc. if they want to where their burquas stay in the middle east because you dont come to australia and take this over.

[brumster225]

@TravisCallaghan Totatally agree with ya mate, i live in sydney and there is a fuckload of migrants around here, if they want to come live here, they should adapt to our way of life, speak our language and wear our clothes

[NerdzIEat]

In My Primary School, We Sung This Song All The Time! And We Also Sung, Home Amungst The Gum Tree's And I Am, You Are, We Are Australian <3 Love The Old Days, Now All These Bloody Turban Heads Wanna Change Our National Anthem!? Whats This World Come To! LIKE THIS IF YOU THINKS ITS BULLSHIT! BLOODY TOWEL HEADS SHOULD GO BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY!!

[Ms2blackcats]

@NerdzIEat  What song do they want?

[hugobos1]

@NerdzIEat Fuck off cunt, there's enough space to go round.

[123kiara123ify]

i like this song becoze it is great music and really,really,really awesome song ever

[taif5congo]

i learn this song in class

[Ms2blackcats]

best version yet. fun

[72385able]

i love the song!

[phil234561]

A great people & a great culture!! Look at Sydney now :)

[otherranger]

Is this song off the "Gday from Down Under' CD?

[hollyLOVEStoCOMMENT]

another pure auzzie song GO AUSTRILA!!!!!!!!!!!

*pokes all amreicans reading this* :P

[mischebabe]

@hollyLOVEStoCOMMENT if you were really aussie, you'd know how to spell australia. mate youre pure austrilan.

[Ms2blackcats]

@mischebabe How many of these convicts that came from England were actually Irish?

[coldabandon]

lol, that's nowhere near Botany Bay. About 2000km away in the outback. Nice place though.

[makjac46]

@maureenmo1 Yes, to both.

[makjac46]

And many of you seem to forget that America also was treated as a penal colony by Britain until taxes imposed by Britain got up the Americans noses and they rightly rebelled. Convict or not, I'm Australian and that's good enough for me.

[wighead128]

:) I've known it my whole life

[dudeY0nAZ]

seehr gail *_*

[pakreecekennedy]

With all the trouble going on in the world...this song makes me proud to be an Australian...i think the covicts who sung the song felt the same way.

the sea is a dreadfull thing to be fed to...but its a great place to play. hear's to our great future.

[TheMackz08]

this is why australians, true australians are so tough very proud to be australian

[TheMackz08]

this is why australians, true australians are so tough

[Oscillius]

@maureenmo1 This song was sung by the British convicts aboard the first fleet, who were to build the very first colony in Australia. Note that most of these people had only commited minor offences, and were arrested due to changes in the law, conducted to accumulate prisoners who were faced with the decision to either recieve some serious punishment, or join the colony. The conditions on the ships were quite terrible, and many people died on them.

Hope this helped.

[servusclementis]

@Oscillius Actually to be transported one generally had to commit a serious offence. Many had death sentences that were commuted to transportation for life. The prison hulks were bursting beyond capacity before the decision to found the colony was made. After several years people used to commit offences on purpose in order to be transported due to the excellent living and working conditions in Australia that even for those in bonded service was better than those for many freemen in England.

[TwistableArtist]

@servusclementis While it's true that many death sentences were commuted, these death sentences were more than often for minor crimes, mainly theft. There were people who were transported for stealing items worth less than a pound.

[MrStingi]

@ TomsYTTV

i heard it in a english lesson too today =D

[HellMoth95]

@MrStingi me too :D

[TomsYTTV]

I heard this song in a english lesson :D

greets from germany :)

[plusplusplusplusp]

This is one of those songs that's really fun to sing with a group of other people in public.

[maxorox226]

i had to sing this in bush wazhee

[pakreecekennedy]

what about "the road to gunndaguy"...lol

[hamo1992]

i am 19 and back in primary school they drilled it in our heads o bad my bad my rellos were convicts hahah

[MrSpasskeksevernasch]

im learned the song in our English lessons!

Greeting from Germany!



[barbaramanuk]

I learnt this song 45 years ago on schools radio broadcast. It was a programme called 'Singing Together' and was supposed to have children singing the same song all across the country. God, that was 1966!

[bugabugalugs]

ABC school radio sing along......

[hannahgarey]

is there a banjo playing in this or is it just a harpsichord and violin??

[airconguy1]

Taught this song in Year 4 (2006), kept going in 07!

[bellabulldog12]

i lernt this song in class

[Avatar230594]

I was taught this song in grade 5. Forgot the lyrics

[sydneyalbo]

Rockdale public school lol

[mattingram11]

Yea, i was taught this song when i was in primary school, and that was like only a few years ago, and pretty sure they still teach, my cousins now it :)

[Sem5626]

i grew up learning and singing these songs.. (this is early 90's) born in 1985... they don't teach this to our kids anymore..

why?

[kakashisharingun]

@Sem5626 My siblings have been taught it, their 8 and 10, so it still seems to be a not uncommon thing to be taught in schools

[Sem5626]

@kakashisharingun awesome... 2 kids have been taught it.. well lets say 2 classes.. musnt be uncommon then,

i was actually meaning its not placed in current curriculum, schools have the choice whether or not to teach folk style songs.. and sadly most dont

[Avatar230594]

@Sem5626 I think it should be mandatory. It's important that kids today learn their true culture. They're being americanised and it's getting worse.

[TheBlindPig1]

@Avatar230594 Very true. They should also research their family tree, find out if their relative arrived as a prostitute or a convict. This song should be the National Anthem. If eugenic ideas return to popularity Australia will be sunk!

[burek06]

this song brings back happy memories of my years in primary school and visiting old sydney town

[paddlebomb]

@burek06 haha.. happy memoies indeed.. I was about to write to exact same comment... its a great shame, Old Sydney Town closed down, if only it was closer to the city.. and not half way up the central coast... it might have been still there... Old Sydney Town..great open air museum town...

[watami10]

good old aussie folk i grew up on this shit

[DeutscherHipHoperNo1]

haben das alle in der schule ??? ich auch

[ultimateiversonfan10]

sing this in the back of a bus in america. you'll get the funniest looks ever

[jawharp1992]

@ultimateiversonfan10 Totally gonna do that now and get it on tape. I hope the fact that I live in LA won't get me stabbed doing it.

[Avatar230594]

@ultimateiversonfan10 If im ever in the States Im gonna do that

[nrpille]

@ultimateiversonfan10 There aren't too many songs you could sing in the back of a bus in the US that wouldn't get you a funny look!

[gamerfourm217]

@nrpille The best thing, or funniest, is to burst out in a group singing this in class. I'm trying it this week.lol

[JUSYJUZ]

@gamerfourm217 so how did it go? u get many laughs?

[Mutski1579]

@ultimateiversonfan10

*Edits Bucket List*

"Cheers, Mate. Will Do."

[wighead128]

@ultimateiversonfan10

i must agree

[wertpollwert]

@ultimateiversonfan10

umm.sing that in the back of a Bus in 'Australia',you`ll get the funniest looks

[Packy1000]

Grad inner schule gehabt :D

[1993DJC]

how about lyrics?

[KayKayEmoSternchen]

das hab ich gerade im englischunterricht :D

[DeutscherHipHoperNo1]

@KayKayEmoSternchen 

[bazwil]

can anyone please tell me what film this was in of norman wisdom, i vagley remember it being sang on a train by a school teacher and the children but just cannot remember the norman wisdom film.

[ameliaaO9]

well this helps me get the song for school

[mymagnoliatree]

I love this! We used to sing it at school in England, and if I hear it once, it's in my head for days.

Isn't there another one about a laughing kukaburra? We also learned that but I've never heard of since so I'm beginning to think I imagined it!

[semtex84]

Kookaburra sat in the old Gum Tree.

[mymagnoliatree]

@semtex84 "merry merry king of the bush is he, laugh kookaburra..."?? is that right? Can't remember any more!

[firefoxYuuki]

KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLEN!!

diese lied :D

[wishart071]

we listened the song in english lesson :D

[Strik3rPstyleZz]

real schule Kleve-kellen ? :D

[Fredstotty]

im English and grew up in Auss , lived there 10 years . used to listen to this in the car , Love the song ! haha

[lavender8881]

@Fredstotty

me too

[SCE2AUX]

"You don't see a whole lot of us walkin' around Sydney going 'Too-ra-lie u-ra-lie ayety," - Paul Hogan

[mymagnoliatree]

@SCE2AUX I bet you do on special occasions....

[SCE2AUX]

@mymagnoliatree ...well, not in Sydney.

[mymagnoliatree]

@SCE2AUX what, you wait till you get home?

[SCE2AUX]

I live closer to Melbourne.

[mymagnoliatree]

@SCE2AUX you sing it in Melbourne?

[Joely7Car]

awesome i learnt this song in class a few weeks ago.

[atareeey]

@Joely7Car same

[sandstormin]

i wonder tho, how many stops they had along the way from england, many tonnes of rum, i think its why they made indian pale ale if i remember right

[SCE2AUX]

It was a hell of a trip. No Panama Canal, no Suez Canal. Eight and a half months, and either possible route takes you through the worst possible seas (Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn).

[desertstar987]

india pale ale keeps better than regular ale. called india pale ale as it was brewed in england and shipped to british india for consumption in the 1800's.

[mymagnoliatree]

@sandstormin I don't think anyone could have made that trip sober.