I pray you attend to the sad tale of Charles Adolphus King
From Manchester transported was for the crime of housebreaking
Four years ago was many an (oak??) that he French-leave did take
And for the crime sent it back again when he these words did say
Oh my Lord dear Lord I pray
Send me again to Botany Bay
I was but nineteen years of age when I did the sad crime
For which I then transported was and have served four years time
I was six months on board the Hawks and then with the Moors set sail
For Botany Bay where the hard ships (take make port transport me way??)
Oh my Lord dear Lord I pray
Send me again to Botany Bay
Then a two way master thought well means to him I was a**igned
Ah but when he left the country poor King was left behind
And further in to that dreadful land to a chain gang I was sent
Where worse than slaves amid the toil and want our days and nights were spent
Oh my Lord dear Lord I pray
Send me again to Botany Bay
I with John Carney did escape we wandered in the woods
Until we met some savages who kindly gave us food
Then hid ourselves on board a ship which with us then set sail
From Botany Bay where the hard ships (take make port transport me way??)
Oh my Lord dear Lord I pray
Send me again to Botany Bay
Oh do my live some pity take my years they are but few
I was brought up in ignorance as many people knew
To teach me what was right or wrong my parent they did fail
And the only schooling I got was in the New Bailey gaol
Oh my Lord dear Lord I pray
Send me again to Botany Bay
The smoke and (foot??) in the Aldophus at Liverpool Assizes
It filled the judge and the court likewise with pity and surprise
The judge with tears he said Young man you're pleading is in vain
I have no power the law commands You must go back again