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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,
He lived in Mundaloo, and Bill M… But folks that knew him well had l… For he some’ow lost his surname, a… He was called 'The Silent Member… He could talk on any subject—from…
‘Country blokes is kind,’ he said, And sat upon his swag (I had no pipe tobacco, So he said he’d ‘risk a fag.’) ‘A country bloke’s my sort o’ blok…
Tho’ it sounds a trifle mystic, Somewhat vague and cabbalistic, When you come to analyse the inner… Of political alliance You will find it is a science
To gild refined gold, or to paint… Or seek by other means to overstre… As Shakespeare has it, is not mer… But ‘wasteful and ridiculous exces… Yes, men still try it, for no othe…
O ye women! WIMMIN! WEEMIN… See our tears repentant streamin’! See the pearly drops a-gleamin’, Streamin’ from our rheumy eye! Mark our weskits palpitatin’.
Men of the sea (said Bones, A.B.… Is touchy coves and curious, They stands a lot, till some dark… Gets 'em all hot an’ furious. Tricks with their food brings on a…
The cattle-lands of Corryong, The maiden of the snows (Where silver streams the winter l… Sing pleasantly their tinkling son… Not many a town man knows.
There is women, yer Worship, of v… An’ some of 'em’s fluffy a’ foolis… An’ some is sispicious an’ mean in… An’ others fair set-like an’ mulis… There is some, as I owns, is real…
There’s many a man who rides today In the lonely, far out-back; There’s many a man who makes his w… On a dusty bushland track; There’s many a man in bush and tow…
I knew a policeman once And this is true as it ever could… Who made me feel an awful dunce; ‘Cos I lost my dad, and it fright… He came and took me by the hand
Ses Cullen, the cockie, he ses to… ‘Now, I puts it to you in this wa… If a feller....(Woah, Ginger! C… If a feller sets out fer to say Where he happens to stand in this…
I’d like to be a sailor - a sailor… Calling out, ‘Ship ahoy!’ in manl… I’d learn to box the compass, and… I’d sniff and snifff the briny bre… Perhaps I’d chew tobacco, or an o…
Are we so flabby, and are we so so… I have pondered the question long… And happy-go-lucky we may appear When the fat and easy days are her… When it’s easy come and it’s easy…
In the old town traditions - as gr… One epic tale immortalises Lah-di… Clerk to a local wheat-buyer in th… Some deemed him just a ‘masher,’ b… With his waxed moustache, his mono…