be dead behind me John when I get to Mexico", specifically to goad her captor, bounty-hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell). This performance is available on the film's soundtrack, The Hateful Eight. The Hateful Eight takes place during the Reconstruction Era, several decades after the song is thought to have been written but before it was published in 1907. It was sung to the tune of Skibbereen. See also "Botany Bay", another Australian convict ballad "Wild Colonial Boy", ballad inspired by bushranger Jack Donahue References Bibliography Charles MacAlister, Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South (1907), "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (1 text) Geoffrey Grigson (editor), The Penguin Book of Ballads (1975), 96, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (1 text) Warren Fahey, Eureka: The Songs that Made Australia (1984), pp. 28–29, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (1 text, 1 tune) J. S. Manifold, The Penguin Australian Songbook (1964), pp. 12–13, "Jim Jones" (1 text, 1 tune) ST PBB096 (Partial) Roud Folksong #5478 Australian folk songs Australian poems Songs about Australia Songs about criminals Songs about crime Songs about pirates 1907 songs Bob Dylan songs Folk ballads Botany Bay