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By Richard Walsh
Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson, CJ Dennis, and Adam Lindsay Gordon—once upon a time those have been family names and Australians may well recite their most renowned verse. right here for the 1st time in a single quantity are the entire nice bush ballads, memorable songs, and different poetry. when you continuously questioned what got here after "There used to be stream on the station," or "We'll all be rooned, stated Hanrahan, in accents so much forlorn," then conventional Australian Verse is the ebook for you. It is a handsome treasury to entertain and enjoyment the newcomer and the traditionalist alike.
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Over 25 This famous song was first published in 1881, and for the next hundred years controversy raged over whether Jack Doolan was real or mythical. The most persuasive account of his life is contained in Allen Mawer’s The Life and Legend of Jack Doolan, the Wild Colonial Boy (Mulini Press 2004). 26 THE OLD BARK HUT Anonymous Oh, my name is Bob the Swagman, before you all I stand, And I’ve had many ups and downs while travelling through the land. I once was well-to-do, my boys, but now I am stumped up, And I’m forced to go on rations in an old bark hut.
But, as Meredith dryly observed, the song could hardly have lived so long if the dog had merely sat on the tuckerbox. 54 Salesman and balladeer Jack Moses in the 1920s created a cleaned-up version of ‘Nine Miles from Gundagai’, in which the dog sits on, and guards, the tuckerbox. This proved immensely popular and subsequently the famous Dog On The Tuckerbox monument was constructed outside Gundagai, and unveiled before a large and appreciative crowd by the Australian Prime Minister, Joe Lyons, in 1932.
CHORUS: Click go the shears, boys! Click, click, click! &c. The colonial-experience man he is there, of course, With his shiny leggin’s, just got off his horse, Casting round his eye like a real connoisseur Whistling the old tune I’m the Perfect Lure. CHORUS: Click go the shears, boys! Click, click, click! &c. 41 The tar-boy is there a-waiting in demand, With his blackened tar-pot and his tarry hand. ” CHORUS: Click go the shears, boys! Click, click, click! &c. Shearing is all over and we’ve all got our cheques; Roll up your swag for we’re off on the tracks.