Book: Old Bush Songs

• The Wild Colonial Boy

  'Tis of a wild Colonial Boy, Jack Doolan was his name,
  Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine.

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• On the road to Gundagai

  Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out.
  We'd whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about,

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• John Gilbert ( Bushranger)

  John Gilbert was a bushranger
  Of terrible renown

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• Bold Jack Donahoe (1)

  'Twas of a valiant highwayman and outlaw of disdain
  Who'd scorn to live in slavery or wear a convicts chain;

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• Bold Jack Donahoe (2)

  In Dublin town I was brought up, in that city of great fame.
  My decent friends and parents, they will tell to you the same.

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• The Old Bark Hut

  In an old bark hut on a mountainside
  In a spot that was lone and drear

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• The Dying Stockman

  A strapping young stockman lay dying,
  His saddle supporting his head;

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• Bold Jack Donohue (3)

  Come all you gallant bushrangers who gallop o'er the plains
  Refuse to live in slavery, or wear the convict chains.

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• Brave Donahue

  A life that is free as the bandit's of old,
  When Rome was the prey of the warriers bold

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• Goorianawa

  Now I'm getting broken mouthed,
  My shearing's at an end,

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• Ben Hall

  My name is Ben Hall from Urunga I came,
  The cause of my turn out you all know the same;

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• Our Jack

  D'ye ken our Jack with his note so gay,
  D'ye ken our Jack at the break of day,

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• Death of Ben Hall

  Come all Australia's sons to me --
  A hero has been slain

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• Tomahawking Fred

  Now some shearing I have done, and some prizes I have won,
  Through my knuckling down so close on the skin,

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• Billy Barlow in Australia

  When I was at home I was down on my luck,
  And I earned a poor living by drawing a truck;

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• Bourke's Dream

  Lonely and sadly one night in November
  I laid down my weary head in search of repose

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• My Religion

  Let Romanists all at Confessional kneel,
  Let the Jew with disgust turn from it,

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• The Wallaby Brigade

  You often have been told of regiments brave and bold,
  But we are the bravest in the land;

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• The Freehold on the Plain

  I'm a broken-down old squatter, my cash it is all gone,
  Of troubles and bad seasons I complain;

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• A Thousand Miles Away

  Hurrah for the Roma railway! Hurrah for Cobb and Co.,
  And oh! for a good fat horse or two to carry me Westward Ho --

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• The Overlander

  There's a trade you all know well —
        It's bringing cattle over:

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• The Shepherd

  He wore an old blue shirt the night that first we met,
  An old and tattered cabbage-tree concealed his locks of jet;

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• The Australian Stockman

  The sun peers o'er yon wooded ridge and thro' the forest dense,
  Its golden edge o'er the mountain ledge looks down on the stockyard fence,

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• Mustering Song

  The boss last night in the hut did say --
  "We start to muster at break of day;

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• The Stockman's Last Bed

  Be ye stockmen or no, to my story give ear.
  Alas! for poor Jack, no more shall we hear

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• The Squatter of the Olden Time

  I'll sing to you a fine new song, made by my blessed mate,
  Of a fine Australian squatter who had a fine estate,

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• Wallabi Joe

  The saddle was hung on the stockyard rail,
  And the poor old horse stood whisking his tail,

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• River Bend

  At River Bend, in New South Wales,
  All alone among the whales,

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• The Maranoa Drovers

  The night is dark and stormy, and the sky is clouded o'er;
  Our horses we will mount and ride away,

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• The Stockman

  A bright sun and a loosened rein,
  A whip whose pealing sound

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• The Swagman

  Kind friends, pray give attention
       To this, my little song.

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• The Murrumbidgee Shearer

  Come, all you jolly natives, and I'll relate to you
  Some of my observations -- adventures, too, a few.

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• The Old Keg of Rum

  My name is old Jack Palmer,
  I'm a man of olden days,

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• The Loafers' Club

  A club there is established here, whose name they say is Legion;
  From Melbourne to the Billabong they're known in every region.

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• The Stockmen of Australia

  The stockmen of Australia, what rowdy boys are they,
  They will curse and swear a hurricane if you come in their way.

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• Colonial Experience

  When first I came to Sydney Cove
  And up and down the streets did rove,

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• Hawking

  Now, shut your mouths, you loafers all,
  You vex me with your twaddle,

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• The Bushman

  When the merchant lies down, he can scarce go to sleep
  For thinking of his merchandise upon the fatal deep;

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• My Mate Bill

  That's his saddle on the tie-beam,
  And them's his spurs up there

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• Bringing Home the Cows

  Shadows of the twilight falling
  On the mountain's brow,

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• Sunny New South Wales

  We often hear men boast about the land which gave them birth,
  And each one thinks his native land the fairest spot on earth;

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• A National Song for Australia Felix

  Dark over the face of Nature sublime
  Reign'd tyranny, warfare, and every crime;

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• The Free Selector (song of 1861)

  Ye sons of industry, to you I belong,
  And to you I would dedicate a verse or a song.

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• The Sheep-Washers' Lament

  Come now, ye sighing washers all,
  Join in my doleful lay,

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• The Plains of Riverine

  I have come to tell the glorious news you'll all be glad to hear,
  Of the pleasant alterations that are taking place this year.

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• Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo

  If you want a situation, I'll just tell you the plan
  To get on to a station, I am just your very man.

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• The Eumerella Shore

  There's a happy little valley on the Eumerella shore,
  Where I've lingered many happy hours away,

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• The Stringy-Bark Cockatoo

  I'm a broken-hearted miner, who loves his cup to drain,
  Which often-times has caused me to lie in frost and rain.

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• The Squatter's Man

  Come, all ye lads an' list to me,
  That's left your homes an' crossed the sea,

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• Immigration

  Now Jordan's land of promise is the burden of my song,
  Perhaps you've heard him lecture, and blow about it strong;

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• Banks of Riverine

  Hark! Hark! the dogs are barking, I can no longer stay;
  The boys have all gone shearing, so I heard the shepherd say;

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• To-morrow I'm Losing My Darling

  I'm very unhappy, tho' nothing I've done.
  I'll tell you the cause of my sorrow;

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• Shearers Song

  Hurrah for the Lachlan, boys, and join me in a cheer;
  That's the place to go to make a cheque every year.

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• With My Swag All On My Shoulder

  When first I left Old England's shore,
  Such yarns as we were told,

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• The Ramble-eer

  The earth rolls on through empty space, its journey's never done;
  It's entered for a starry race throughout the kingdom come.

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• Hang the Man Who Works

  Come listen to my ditty, come listen to me hum,
  While I relate a verse or two of the professional bum

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• Across the Western Plains I Must Wander

  It's ah ! for my grog, my jolly, jolly grog,
  It's ah ! for my beer and tobacco;

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• The Girls of Tasmania

  The Irishman loves his fair Colleen,
  No doubt she is witty and pretty,

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• New England Cocky

  'Twas a New England Cocky, as of late I've been told,
  Who died, so 'tis said, on account of the cold.

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• Down by the Sydney Side

  Over near a chock-and-log hut,
  Down by the river-side,

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• Then Give Me a Hut in my Own Native Land

  Then give me a hut in my own native land,
  Or a tent in the bush with the mountains so grand;

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• The Death of Morgan

  Throughout Australian History no tongue or pen can tell
  Of such preconcerted treachery -- there is no parallel --

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• Dunn, Gilbert and Ben Hall

  Come! all ye lads of loyalty,
       and listen to my tale;

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• Another Fall of Rain

  THE weather had been sultry for a fortnight's time or more,
  And the shearers had been driving might and main,

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• Flash Jack from Gundagai

  I've shore at Burrabogie, and I've shore at Toganmain,
  I've shore at big Willandra and upon the old Coleraine,

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• Dwell not with Me

  Dwell not with me,
  For you'll never see

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• The Beautiful Land of Australia

  All you on emigration bent,
  With home and England ill-content,

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• The Old Survey

  Our money's all spent, to the deuce it went!
  The landlord, he looks glum;

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• Paddy's Letter, 1857

  I've had all sorts of luck, sometimes bad, sometimes better,
  But now I have somebody's luck and my own,

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• The Old Bullock Dray

  Oh ! the shearing is all over,
  And the wool is coming down,

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• Paddy Malone in Australia

  Och ! my name's Pat Malone, and I'm from Tipperary.
  Sure, I don't know it now, I'm so bothered, Ohone!

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