The Passing of Gundagai (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
"I'll introduce a friend!" he said, "And if you've got a vacant pen You'd better take him in the shed ...
"I'll introduce a friend!" he said, "And if you've got a vacant pen You'd better take him in the shed ...
There's nothing here sublime, But just a roving rhyme, Run off to pass the time, With nought titanic in. The ...
The roving breezes come and go, the reed-beds sweep and sway, The sleepy river murmers low,and loiters on its way, ...
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, She told the lawyer man her tale in tones ...
In the good old days when the Army's ways were simple and unrefined, With a stock to keep their chins ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, So ...
O west of all that a man holds dear, on the edge of the Kingdom Come, Where carriage is far ...
ALL of us play our very best game- Any other time. Golf or billiards, it's all the same- Any other ...
The fields of youth are filled with flowers, The wine of youth is strong: What need have we to count ...
Australia takes her pen in hand To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand How proud we ...
A land, as far as the eye can see, where the waving grasses grow Or the plains are blackened and ...
The boys had come back from the races All silent and down on their luck; They'd backed 'em, straight out ...
It chanced out back at the Christmas time, When the wheat was ripe and tall, A stranger rode to the ...
The grey gull sat on a floating whale, On a floating whale sat he, And he told his tale of ...
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him ...
We've travelled per Joe Gardiner, a humping of our swag In the country of the Gidgee and Belar. We've swum ...
Grey dawn on the sand-hills -- the night wind has drifted All night from the rollers a scent of the ...
They came from the lower levels Deep down in the Brilliant mine; From the wastes where the whirlwind revels, Whirling ...
To Policeman G. the Inspector said: "When you pass the 'shops' you must turn your head; If you took a ...
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
In this war we're always moving, Moving on; When we make a friend another friend has gone; Should a woman's ...
The chorus frogs in the big lagoon Would sing their songs to the silvery moon. Tenor singers were out of ...
My Uncle Bill! My Uncle Bill! How doth my heart with anguish thrill! For he, our chief, our Robin Hood, ...
It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub, That they formed an institution called the ...
There came a stranger to Walgett town, To Walgett town when the sun was low, And he carried a thirst ...
I This is the sunburnt bushman who Came down from Goondiwindi, Q. II This is the Push from Waterloo That ...
Morgan the drover explained, As he drank from his battered quart-pot, Many a slut I have trained; This is the ...
And I worked my way to the end, and I Was the head of the "Flying Gang". 'Twas a chosen ...
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