JIM JONES AT BOTANY BAY

Created on 02/06/2021
Latest update on 02/06/2021

Artist: Ewan MacColl
Author: traditional
Label: Wattle
Year: 1957

On EP Convicts And Currency Lads. Transportation ballad about the fate of convicts banned to the penal colony in New South Wales (1828-1830).

Covers:

1963:

Martyn Wyndham-Read

1964:

Gary Shearston

1971:

A.L. Lloyd [after backing Ewan MacColl on his version]

1976:

Trevor Lucas

1992:

Bob Dylan [as Jim Jones on Good As I Been To You]

1998:

Martin Carthy [as Jim Jones In Botany Bay]

2015:

Jennifer Jason Leigh [in film The Hateful Eight]

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