#Australians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
In the everlasting summer, when th… and the asphalt of the footpath cu… When you’re creased and crabbed an… And the persperation’s drippin’ in… There’s a penetratin’ odor gets ab…
Out across the spinifex, out acros… Out across the saltbush to Never… That’s the way the drovers go, jog… That’s the way the drovers go. Bu… Back across the saltbush from Nev…
Did you ever meet Bert? 'E’s all… In offices, shops an’ in various p… Cocky an’ all; an’ you can’t keep… I never seen no one so lucky at ra… Backs all the winners or very near…
When I led you to the altar Vows were made, you’ll call to min… Darling wife. Now a defaulter Must I seem if I’d be kind. For you know how well I love you,
Let 'em come, by gum! That’s all… Let me see one of 'em up this way, With their sacks a-back an’ their… Low neck, short-panted hikin’ coot… Flingin’ their fags in the bramble…
Smith is a loyalist good and true, And a lad of the 'whole hog’ class… And yesterday, when he went to vie… The Royal procession pass, He’d flags in his buttonhole, flag…
‘Peter the ’Ermit was a ‘oly blok… The parson sez, ‘wot chivvied cove… ‘Too right,’ I chips. 'I’ve ‘ear… ‘Brave knights sprung straight to… ‘Sure thing,’ sez I. 'It muster b…
Now is the season of Carnival. Who’s for the sunlit course? Who’s for the beat of galloping fe… And the day and the way of the hor… Who joins the dance, tho’ Lady Ch…
There was never a hint, when I wa… That the joy of the wilds might br… Never a thought that a wild thing… Might wake in the slayer pain for… We were savages all, with the hunt…
I. WASHING DAY The little gipsy vi’lits, they wus… As she come walkin’ in the grass,… The sun shone on the sassafras, wh… —The 'ope an’ worry uv our lives w…
Oh, is there not one place on eart… Where man’s goodwill has gone from… Thro’ adolescence, with its rage, Into a kindly, mellow age A tolerant maturity
I wonder what the Jacks have got… I’m sure the worms don’t see the j… I wonder which is best: a rich plu… Or lemon ice, or plain boiled rice… I wonder why I wear a tie. It is…
Now, a man in Oodnadatta He grew fat, and he grew fatter, Though he hardly had a thing to ea… While a man in Booboorowie Often sat and wondered how he
Come, let us sing with a right goo… (Sing hey for lifting lay, sing he… Of any old, sunny old, silly old t… (Sing ho for the ballad of a backb… The sun shone brightly overhead,
Should it occasion much surprise That criminals should deal in blam… As all of us, and recognise The full depth of another’s shame. The burglar blames the bigamist