Old bush songs composed and sung in the bushranging, digging, and overlanding days / edited by A.B. Paterson

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Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1932
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Contents

Old Bush Songs 1
OLD BUSH SONGS 5
PREFACE 7
CONTENTS 9
INTRODUCTION 13
TWO ABORIGINAL SONGS 23
PADDY MALONE IN AUSTRALIA 24
OLD BULLOCK DRAY 28
PADDY’S LETTER, 1857 32
OLD BARK HUT 35
OLD SURVEY 41
DWELL NOT WITH ME 43
BEAUTIFUL LAND OF AUSTRALIA 44
ON THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI 48
FLASH JACK FROM GUNDAGAI 51
ANOTHER FALL OF RAIN 54
BOLD JACK DONAHOO 57
BOLD JACK DONAHOE 60
DUNN, GILBERT AND BEN HALL 63
DEATH OF MORGAN 66
THEN GIVE ME A HUT IN MY OWN NATIVE LAND 69
DOWN BY THE SYDNEY SIDE 71
NEW ENGLAND COCKY 73
GIRLS OF TASMANIA 75
ACROSS THE WESTERN PLAINS I MUST WANDER 77
HANG THE MAN WHO WORKS 79
WILD ROVER NO MORE 81
RAMBLE-EER 83
WITH MY SWAG ALL ON MY SHOULDER 85
MY FOUR LITTLE JOHNNY-CAKES 87
TO-MORROW I’M LOSING MY DARLING 89
BANKS OF RIVERINE 91
WILD COLONIAL BOY 93
JOHN GILBERT (BUSHRANGER) 96
IMMIGRATION 99
SQUATTER’S MAN 101
STRINGY-BARK COCKATOO 104
EUMERELLA SHORE 107
JIMMY SAGO, JACKAROO 109
PLAINS OF RIVERINE 111
SHEEP-WASHERS’ LAMENT 115
BROKEN-DOWN SQUATTER 118
FREE SELECTOR 120
SONG FOR AUSTRALIA FELIX 122
SUNNY NEW SOUTH WALES 124
BRINGING HOME THE COWS 127
DYING STOCKMAN 129
MY MATE BILL 131
SAM HOLT 134
BUSHMAN 137
HAWKING 139
COLONIAL EXPERIENCE 142
STOCKMEN OF AUSTRALIA 144
IT’S ONLY A WAY HE’S GOT 147
LOAFERS’ CLUB 150
OLD KEG OF RUM 153
MURRUMBIDGEE SHEARER 157
SWAGMAN 160
STOCKMAN 162
MARANOA DROVERS 164
RIVER BEND 166
SONG OF THE SQUATTER 168
WALLABI JOE 171
SQUATTER OF THE OLDEN TIME 173
STOCKMAN’S LAST BED 175
MUSTERING SONG 177
AUSTRALIAN STOCKMAN 180
SHEPHERD 182
OVERLANDER 184
THOUSAND MILES AWAY 187
FREEHOLD ON THE PLAIN 189
WALLABY BRIGADE 191
MY RELIGION 193
BOURKE’S DREAM 195
BILLY BARLOW IN AUSTRALIA 197
TOMAHAWKING FRED 202
DEATH OF BEN HALL 204
OUR JACK 206
BEN HALL 208
GOORIANAWA 209

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Old Bush Songs  

A. B. Paterson  

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