10,000 Miles Away

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  Then blow ye winds and blow and a roving I will go
  I'll stay no more on England's shore to hear the fiddles play
  For I'm on the move to me own true love 10.000 miles away

Oh, my true love was beautiful and my true love was gay
But she's taken a trip on a government ship bound out for Botany Bay
Bound out for Botany Bay, me boys and tho she's far away
I'll never forget me own true love 10.000 miles away

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Oh, it was the summer's morning when last I see'd me Meg
She'd a government band around her hand and another one round her leg
And another one round her leg, me boys as the big ship left the bay
Adieu, me love remember me 10.000 miles away

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I wished I was a bosun or a sailor without fear
I'd man a boat and away I'd float and straight for me true love steer
And straight for me true love steer me boys where the whales and the =
Dolphins play
Where the whales and the sharks are having their larks 10.000 miles away
Chorus
Well, the sun may shine through the London fog or the river run quite =
clear
Or the ocean brine turn into wine, or I forget me beer
Or I forget me beer, me boys or the landlord's quarter day
But I'll never forget me own true love 10.000 miles away

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