A B 'Banjo' Paterson's Poetry, by popularity

• To George Lambert

  An essay on Australia Art and Literature. In recognition of Lambert’s really excellent portrait of Mrs Paterson.
  Come all ye  m

  10 lines
• General Drought and General Rain

  Parched are the plains and bare,
  Dusty and eaten out;

  49 lines, 1 comment
• Song of Murray’s Bridge

  Small birds singing in the tree tops tell
  Where runs the river of my home

  23 lines
• The Ballad of Ashantie Pagoda

  'Or How the Brigadier Got the Order of the Nile and the Servian White Eagle'
  "I write that he who reads may run

  150 lines
• Our Underpaid Army

  Napoleon made his Marshals out of mud,
  And Cromwell’s Ironsides were mostly tanner,

  82 lines
• Ten Little Jackaroos

  Ten little Jackaroos at riding wished to shine,
  One rode the Corkscrew colt, and then there were nine.

  28 lines
• Bandy Burke

  Our sergeant-major is Bandy Burke,
  Of course he couldn’t afford

  28 lines
• Cape Mounted Rifles

  Now, when you’ve talking of trifles
  I’ll sing you a song of the war –

  27 lines
• I Joined a Contingent

  I joined a contingent and went to the war
  In search of promotion and pay,

  42 lines
• They Met in the Hall at a Charity Ball

  They Met in the Hall at a Charity Ball,
  Patronised by the pink of society,

  33 lines
• Maxims of War

  Firstly, when fighting the Dutchman, male it your cardinal rule –
  Think he’s a rogue if it please you: never believe he’s a fool.

  27 lines
• Not On It

  The new chum’s polo pony was the smartest pony yet –
  The owner backed it for the Cup for all that he could get.

  13 lines
• No Class

  Oh! When we took Pretoria we thought the war was done;
  We thought to do some marching past and finish up the fun;

  19 lines
• Queensland Mounted Infantry

  There’s a very well-built fellow, with a swinging sort of stride,
  About as handy sort as I have seen.

  8 lines
• The Mountain Squatter

  Here in my mountain home,
  On rugged hills and steep,

  98 lines
• The Protest

  I say 'e isn't Remorse!
  'Ow do I know?

  49 lines
• Barney Devine

  Where are you roving now, Barney Devine,
  Shearing or droving now, what is your line?

  26 lines
• The Dry Canteen

  There were three soldiers who went to war,
  (Chorus) Well why not?

  44 lines
• The Dauntless Three (With Apologies to the Shade of Macaulay)

  Chris Watson, of the Parliament,
  By his Caucus Gods he swore

  31 lines
• The Matrimonial Stakes

  I wooed her with a steeplechase, I won her with a fall,
  I made her heartstrings quiver on the flat

  24 lines
• Campin’ Round Coonamble

  Campin’ round Coonamble.
  Keepin’ up the strike,

  61 lines
• The Maori's Wool

  The Maoris are a mighty race -- the finest ever known;
  Before the missionaries came they worshipped wood and stone;

  48 lines
• The Gundaroo Bullock

  Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone,
  And there's some that breeds the brindle which they call the "Gou

  40 lines
• Castlebar

  Biddings good morrow to all our cares,
  Riding along with a joyful heart.

  26 lines
• The Rhyme of the O'Sullivan and Pro Bono Publico

  Pro Bono Publico
  Went out the streets to scan,

  52 lines
• Reconstruction (From a Farmer's Point of View)

  So, the bank has bust its boiler! And in six or seven year
  It will pay me all my money back--of course!

  43 lines
• Here’s Luck (A Toast at a Hunt Club Dinner)

  It chanced one day I watched a steeplechase,
  And one horse singled out and led them all

  26 lines
• The Dam that Keele Built

  This is the dam that Keele built.
  This is the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that Keele built;

  35 lines
• The Uplift

  When the drays are bogged and sinking, then it's no use sitting thinking,
    You must put the teams together and must double-ban

  22 lines
• That Half-Crown Sweep [A Tale of the Territory]

  The run of Billabong-go-dry
  Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap;

  43 lines

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