Name: Botany Bay
Duration: P00H03M44S
Description: Recorded early '21 and most likely as a reaction to a back n' forth with me and designer Levan Stanes. I think I originally recorded it as a tongue in cheek offering but grew more n' more to like the version and so the song finds its way on to this album.

Botany Bay

from Cold by Steve Blaque

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Recorded early '21 and most likely as a reaction to a back n' forth with me and designer Levan Stanes. I think I originally recorded it as a tongue in cheek offering but grew more n' more to like the version and so the song finds its way on to this album.

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Botany Bay

Farewell to old England forever
Farewell to my rum culls as well
Farewell to the well known Old Bailey
Where I used for to cut such a swell

Singing Tooral liooral liaddity
Singing Tooral liooral liay
Singing Tooral liooral liaddity
And we're bound for Botany Bay

There's the captain as is our commander
There's the bosun and all the ship's crew
There's the first and the second class passengers
Knows what we poor convicts go through

Taint leaving old England we cares about
Taint cos we mis-spells what we knows
But because all we light fingered gentry
Hops around with a log on our toes

These seven long years I've been serving now
And seven long more have to stay
All for bashing a bloke down our alley
And taking his ticker away

Oh had I the wings of a turtle dove
I'd soar on my pinions so high
Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love
And in her sweet presence I'd die

Now all my young Dookies and Dutchesses
Take warning from what I've to say
Mind all is your own as you toucheses
Or you'll find us in Botany Bay

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from Cold, released December 23, 2022

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Steve Blaque Beijing, China

Steve Blaque singer, songwriter, Producer and engineer and owner of Darktrunk Recording (formerly Forbidden City Studio Beijing) also performs in an unplugged environment with his favorite flavors of Indie and Grunge. Blaque has always said ''you don't need distortion to be grunge and you don't need twang to be Indie''. ... more

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