Jim Jones Lyrics - Good As I Been To You - Bob Dylan

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" 

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And our ship was high upon the sea 

When 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 

Or they'll flog the poaching out of you 

Down there in Botany Bay 

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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 bravest rankers 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 floggers down 

Oh, I'll give the land a little shock 

Remember what I say 

They'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones 

In chains to Botany Bay