#Australians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I served my time, in the days gone… In the railway’s clash and clang, And I worked my way to the end, a… Was the head of the “Flying Gang”… ’Twas a chosen band that was kept…
Little bush maiden, wondering-eyed… Playing alone in the creek-bed dry… In the small green flat on every s… Walled in by the Moonbi ranges hi… Tell me the tale of your lonely li…
They came from the lower levels Deep down in the Brilliant mine; From the wastes where the whirlwin… Whirling the leaves of pine. On the western plains, where the…
The stockmen of Australia, what r… They will curse and swear an hurri… They dash along the forest on blac… And the stockmen of Australia, ha… By constant feats of horsemanship,…
So, the bank has bust it’s boiler!… It will pay me all my money back—o… But the horse will perish waiting… And I reckon I’ll be something li… There’s the ploughing to be finish…
A club there is established here,… From Melbourne to the Billabong,… They do not like the cockatoos, bu… Where they keep themselves from st… The rules and regulations, they’re…
A man once read with mind surprise… Of the way that people were “hypno… By waving hands you produced, fors… A kind of trance where men told th… His mind was filled with wond’ring…
Oh, it’s dreadful to think in a co… With its chances for work - and en… That a man like McGuinness was ce… Whenever he tried for employment. He wrote to employers from Bondi…
The news came down on the Castler… That twenty thousand travelling sh… Were drifting down from a dried-ou… And the squatters swore when they… For the name and the fame of Salt…
The track that led to Carmody’s i… The suckers of the stringybark hav… The mountain rains have cut the tr… When first we rode to Carmody’s,… The shearing shed at Carmody’s wa…
When Ironbark the turtle came to… The hills were hid behind a mist o… The ripple of the rivulets was lik… And wild companions waltzed among… But Ironbark the turtle cared no…
It was the man from Ironbark who… He wandered over street and park,… He loitered here he loitered there… Until at last in sheer despair he… ‘Ere! shave my beard and whiskers…
Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands to hold The rushing Rio Grande.
I thought, in the days of the drov… Of steps I might hope to retrace, To be done with the bush and the r… And settle once more in my place. With a heart that was well nigh to…
There’s a happy little valley on t… Where I’ve lingered many happy ho… On my little free selection I hav… Where I unyoke the bullocks from… To my bullocks then I say