Jim Jones at Botany Bay Instrumental, Violin-Guitar

Jim Jones at Botany Bay is an Australian folk song written in the early nineteenth century, and describes a poacher being sentenced to New South Wales. The song describes his sentence, degradation, and dreams of vengeance. It was famously featured in Tarantino's 2015 film, The Hateful Eight. Although the lyrics vary, they go something like this:

Come gather round and listen lads, and hear me tell m' tale,
How 'cross the sea from England shore I was condemned to sail.
The jury found me guilty, sir, and then says the judge, says he,
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,
Way up high upon yon gallows tree, the crows shall pick your bones.

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.
With the storms a-raging round us, and the winds a-blowing gales
I'd rather have drowned in misery than gone to New South Wales.
There's no time for mischief there, remember that, they say
Oh they'll flog the poaching out of you down there in 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 kill the bastards one by one, I'll shoot the tyrants down.
I'll give them all a little treat, remember what I say
They'll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to that curs'd bay.

I wrote this arrangement for voice, violin, and guitar, but the voice had to be cut for technical quality. Here are some other versions that are very good:
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