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  • Old Town Types - Captain Curly Taplin
    I can not recall his heyday; for I knew him in the day
    When his curly hair had thinned a bit, his waxed moustache grown grey.
    32 lines
  • The I'd like to be........ series
    I'd like to be a baker, and come when morning breaks,
    Calling out, \
    63 lines
  • Dusk
    Now is the healing, quiet hour that fills
    This gay, green world with peace and grateful rest.
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Music of your Voice
    A vase upon the mantelpiece,
    A ship upon the sea,
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • Wooloomooloo (A Riddle)
    Here's a ridiculous riddle for you:
    How many o's are there in Woolloomooloo?
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Old Farmer Jack
    Old farmer Jack gazed on his wheat,
    And feared the frost would nip it.
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Cuppacumalonga
    'Rover, rover, cattle-drover, where go you to-day?'
    I go to Cuppacumalomga, fifty miles away;
    32 lines
  • Polly Dibbs
    Mrs Dibbs - Polly Dibbs,
    Standing at a tub,
    24 lines
  • The Famine and The Feast
    Cackle and lay, cackle and lay!
    How many eggs did you get to-day?
    18 lines
  • The Spotted Heifers
    Mr Jeremiah Jeffers
    Owned a pair of spotted heifers
    60 lines
  • The Song of the Sulky Stockman
    Come, let us sing with a right good ring
    (Sing hey for lifting lay, sing hey!)
    47 lines
  • The Traveller
    As I rode in to Burrumbeet,
    I met a man with funny feet;
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • The Drovers
    Out across the spinifex, out across the sand,
    Out across the saltbush to Never Never land
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Old Black Jacko
    Old Black Jacko
    Smokes tobacco
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Lullaby
    You are much too big to dandle,
    And I will not leave the candle.
    12 lines
  • Riding Song
    Flippity-flop! Flippity-flop!
    Here comes the butcher to bring us a chop
    8 lines
  • Tea Talk
    'Excuse me if I sit on you,' the cup said to the saucer.
    'I fear I've been here all the afternoon.'
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Upon the Road to Rockabout
    Upon the road to Rockabout
    I came upon some sheep -
    16 lines
  • Laura Days
    Dreaming to-day in a forest green
    Where the great gums rake the sky,
    64 lines, 1 comment
  • When The Sun's Behind The Hill
    There's a soft and peaceful feeling
    Comes across the farming hand
    47 lines, 2 comments
  • Hopeful Hawkins
    Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat,
    And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss;
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • Washing Day
    The little gipsy vi'lits, they wus peepin' thro' the green
    As she come walkin' in the grass, me little wife, Doreen.
    60 lines
  • The Faltering Knight
    It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life,
    A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer fun,
    138 lines
  • A Holy War
    "Young friend!" . . . I tries to duck, but miss the bus.
    'E sees me first, an' 'as me by the 'and.
    135 lines
  • The Crusaders
    "Peter the 'Ermit was a 'oly bloke,"
    The parson sez, "wot chivvied coves to war."
    126 lines
  • The Knight's Return
    The conq'rin' 'ero! Me? Yes, I don't think.
    This mornin' when I catch the train fer 'ome,
    119 lines
  • A Woman's Way
    Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise.
    I know enough to know I'll never know
    102 lines
  • Out West
    "I've seen so much uv dirt an' grime
    I'm mad to 'ave things clean.
    98 lines
  • The Satin Bower-Bird
    Spare a bloom of blue, lady,
    To adorn a bower.
    32 lines
  • The Indian Myna
    Gimme the town an' its clamour an' clutter;
    I ain't very fond of the bush;
    24 lines
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