#Australians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I bought a run a while ago, On country rough and ridgy, Where wallaroos and wombats grow— The Upper Murrumbidgee. The grass is rather scant, it’s tr…
Be ye stockmen or no, to my story… Alas! for poor Jack, no more shal… The crack of his stockwhip, his st… His clear “Go ahead, boys,” his j… For we laid him where wattles thei…
Why, oh why was Kater lifted From the darkness, where he drifte… All unknown, and raised to honour, Side by side with Dick O’connor, In the Council, free from row?
In the good old days when the Arm… With a stock to keep their chins i… When the only light in the barrack… When they put the extinguisher on… Now, a very great man is the C. i…
Come all ye lads of the droving da… I’ll tell you all of the greatest… For we rolled our swags, and we pa… We started away with a thousand go… There wasn’t a fence that’d hold t…
The Mountains A land of sombre, silent hills, wh… By twisted tracks, on sidelings de… And the wind replies, in the river… A land where the hills keep watch…
This is the place where they all w… Some of the rafters are standing s… Now they are scattered and lost an… Every one from the old nest fled, Out of the shadow of Kiley’s Hill…
Oh, my name is Bob the Swagman, b… And I’ve had many ups and downs w… I once was well-to-do, my boys, bu… And I’m forced to go on rations i… In an old bark hut. In an old…
To the voters of Glen Innes ’twas… To secure the country vote for Mi… So he told 'em what he’d borrowed,… Though extravagance had blown it a… Said he, “Vote for Hay, my hearti…
Well, I’ve waited mighty patient… Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and… With their dreadful, dismal storie… How his fire is always smoky, and… And they paint it so terrific it w…
We buried old Bob where the blood… At the foot of the Eaglehawk; We fashioned a cross on the old ma… For fear that his ghost might walk… We carved his name on a bloodwood…
WEARY WILL by A.B. “Banjo” P… The strongest creature for his siz… But least equipped for combat That dwells beneath Australian sk… Is Weary Will the Wombat.
Ye sons of industry, to you I bel… And to you I would dedicate a ver… Rejoicing o’er the victory John R… Now the Land Bill has passed and… No more with our swags through the…
I’M travellin’ down the Castlerea… I’m handy with the ropin’ pole, I… And I can ride a rowdy colt, or s… But there’s no demand for a statio… So it’s shift, boys, shift, for th…
Now the new chum loaded his three-… It’s a small-bore gun, but his hop… “I am fed to the teeth with old ew… “And I might be able to shoot a p… And he trusted more to his nose th…