#AustralianWriters
I’ve never had much truck with kin… (Said old George Jones). For al… My lot’s been cast 'mid common thn… My path has run by humble ways. Tho’ I have live my life in what
‘The backbone of the country and t… That was how they styled us when t… But what’s his valuation now, when… Chorus: Two bob a dozen, an’ the garments…
Let’s have a tiny little bush fire… It’s a cold, cold night tonight. We are sick of this long session Of the darkness of depression. And a fire would make things brigh…
Said old Pete, the Pensioner: ‘I met him down the road Where, twixt the shadders of the g… The silver moonlight flowed. His skin was white like shrivelled…
Sou’ sou’ east, with the course se… Heave ho, me hearties! On the Geelong road we’re cruisin… Seven tars with ne’er a care Heave ho, me hearties!
They were forthright days when Ji… When they called a spade a spade. And statesmen held in lofty scorn he trickster’s sticky trade. For their eyes were clear and thei…
We mean to say, it never has been… That anyone but England could dec… In the crease or at the wicket, Just exactly what was cricket And, of course, I mean to say, we…
Oh, I’ve ridden 'em rough an’ I’v… Brumbies and prads well-bred. Of every colour and every kind (The old stock-rider said). I’ve broken the wild Blanchwater…
Here my fancy finished; so, Dreaming, I could clearly see How he galloped. This was no Spectacle of misery. There I gazed, upon my pet
‘Alas!’ said the devil, said he to… And his swart face drooped with ca… ‘Life is a liar, a cheat,’ said he 'And the end of it all - despair. Why mourn you here, poor pawn of t…
Some of us may be tall, ma’am; Some of us may be dark; Some handsome; tho’ not all, ma’am… Are touched by Beatury’s spark. But tall, and dark AND handsome,…
Borrowin’ over the water; I’ve se… Raisin’ loans (said Old George J… Was a trick we learned of yore. Borrowin’ over the water In the old Australian way
How many have you broken up till n… I know that yesterday you made a v… And most solemnly ’twas spoken; But how many have you broken? Oh, you kept 'em for an hour or tw…
(I’m not trying to make this thing… But, at the same time, A little interlude like this Is not amiss). We interviewed a Mayor and asked…
‘E sez to me, ’Wot’s orl this fla… The papers torks uv nothin’ else b… An’wot’s ole England got snake-'e… An’ wot’s the strength uv callin’… ‘E sez to me, ’Struth! Don’t she…