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Banjo Paterson
1864 - 1941
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"Ave Caesar"
Long ago the Gladiators, / When the call to combat came, / Marching past the massed spectators,
"He Giveth His Beloved Sleep"
The long day passes with its load of sorrow: / In slumber deep / I lay me down to rest until tomorrow,
"Shouting" For A Camel
It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator, / Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' chink, / Went off to hire a camel from a camel propagator,
"We're All Australians Now"
Australia takes her pen in hand / To write a line to you, / To let you fellows understand
A Ballad Of Ducks
The railway rattled and roared and swung / With jolting and bumping trucks. / The sun, like a billiard red ball, hung
A Bunch Of Roses
Roses ruddy and roses white, / What are the joys that my heart discloses? / Sitting alone in the fading light
A Bush Christening
On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few, / And men of religion are scanty, / On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost,
A Bush Lawyer
When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon / The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal rain, / The ripple of the rivulets was like a cheerful tune
A Bushman's Song
I'm traveling down the Castlereagh, and I'm a station-hand, / I'm handy with the ropin' pole, I'm handy with the brand, / And I can ride a rowdy colt, or swing the axe all day,
A Change Of Menu
Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three, / It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big. / "I am fed to the teeth with old ewe," said he,
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