to New South Wales. Our ship was high upon the seas when pirates came along, But the soldiers on our convict ship were full five hundred strong; They opened fire and so they drove that pirate ship away But I'd rather joined that pirate ship than gone to Botany Bay. Day and night in irons clad we like poor galley slaves Will toil and toil our lives away to fill dishonored graves But by and by I'll slip m' chains and to the bush I'll go And I'll join the brave bushrangers there, Jack Donahue and Co. And some dark night all is right and quiet in the town, I'll get the bastards one and all, I'll gun the floggers down. I'll give them all a little treat, remember what I say And they'll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay. Recordings Ewan MacColl, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on "Convicts and Currency Lads" 1957) Marian Henderson, "Jim Jones of Botany Bay" (PIX magazine EP, 1964) Gary Shearston, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on "Folk Songs and Ballads of Australia" 1964) A. L. Lloyd, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on "The Great Australian Legend" 1971) Bushwhackers and Bullockies Bush Band ("Bushwackers Band"), "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on "The Shearer's Dream", Picture Records 1974. Tune by Mick Slocum as recorded by Bob Dylan 1992; Martin Carthy 1999) Bob Dylan, "Jim Jones" (on Good as I Been to You, 1992) Martin Carthy, "Jim Jones in Botany Bay" (on Signs of Life, 1999) Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on Dead Set Certainty, 1999) Martyn Wyndham-Reed, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on Undiscovered Australia, 19xx) The Currency, "Jim Jones" (on "888", 2008) Mawkin:Causley, "Botany Bay" (on Cold Ruin, 2008) Chloe and Jason Roweth, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on Battler's Ballad, Live at Humph Hall, 2012) Jennifer Jason Leigh, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (on The Hateful Eight soundtrack, 2015) Bill and Joel Plaskett, "Jim Jones" (on Solidarity, 2017) References in popular culture In the computer strategy game Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire, the last part of the ballad is used upon faction selection to describe the Free Drones, a labourer faction. In The Hateful Eight, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) sings the song in reference to her captivity, altering "And I'll join the brave bushrangers there, Jack Donahue and Co." to "And you'll