#Australians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
There’s a soldier that’s been doin… In the fighting up and down and ro… He’s continually marching here and… And he’s fighting, morning in and… The Boer, you see, he generally r…
The Scorcher and the Howling Swe… They wept like anything to see the… “If these were only levelled down,… “If every bloke that rides a bike… Do you suppose,” the Scorcher sai…
Come, Stumpy, old man, we must sh… All our mates in the paddock are d… Let us wave our farewells to Glen… And the hills where your lordship… Together to roam from our drought-…
So you’re back from up the country… And you’re cursing all the busines… Well, we grieve to disappoint you,… That it wasn’t cool and shady—and… And the looney bullock snorted whe…
A strapping young stockman lay dyi… His saddle supporting his head; His two mates around him were cryi… As he rose on his pillow and said: “Wrap me up with my stockwhip and…
Wargeilah town is very small, There’s no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just one unpretentious pub; And there, from all the stations r…
Born of a thoroughbred English ra… Well proportioned and closely knit… Neat, slim figure and handsome fac… Always ready and always fit, Hardy and wiry of limb and thew,
The fields of youth are filled wit… The wine of youth is strong: What need have we to count the hou… The summer days are long. But soon we find to our dismay
They came of bold and roving stock… There were the sons of field and f… We may not hope to see such men in… As those explorers of the bush – t… ‘Twas they who rode the trackless…
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…
Oh, the new-chum went to the backb… But he should have gone there last… He tramped ten miles with a loaded… But of turkey of duck saw never a… For he should have been there last…
There’s nothing here sublime, But just a roving rhyme, Run off to pass the time, With nought titanic in. The theme that it supports,
Chris Watson, of the Parliament, By his Caucus Gods he swore That the great Labor Party Should suffer wrong no more. By his Caucus Gods he swore it,
The Boastful Crow and the Laughi… Were telling tales of the outer ba… “I’ve just been travelling far and… At the back of Bourke and the Que… There isn’t a bird in the bush can…
Come all ye bold trainers attend t… It’s a rule of the A.J.C. You mustn’t train ponies, for that… By the rules of the A.J.C. You have to wear winkers when cros…