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The Old Bush Songs

The Old Bush Songs

by A. B. Paterson

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Compiler
Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941
Credits
This ebook was prepared by Jeffrey Kraus-yao
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Songs, English -- Australia
Category
Text
eBook-No.
10493
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10493
Release Date
December 1, 2003
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE OLD BUSH SONGS — THE OLD BUSH SONGS
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION
  5. 5.TWO ABORIGINAL SONGS — I — II
  6. 6.PADDY MALONE IN AUSTRALIA
  7. 7.THE OLD BULLOCK DRAY
  8. 8.PADDY’S LETTER, 1857
  9. 9.THE OLD BARK HUT
  10. 10.THE OLD SURVEY
  11. 11.DWELL NOT WITH ME
  12. 12.THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF AUSTRALIA
  13. 13.ON THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI
  14. 14.FLASH JACK FROM GUNDAGAI
  15. 15.ANOTHER FALL OF RAIN — (Air: “Little Low Log Cabin in the Lane.”)
  16. 16.BOLD JACK DONAHOO
  17. 17.THE WILD COLONIAL BOY
  18. 18.JOHN GILBERT (BUSHRANGER) — (Air: “Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.”)
  19. 19.IMMIGRATION — (Air: “Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.”)
  20. 20.THE SQUATTER’S MAN
  21. 21.THE STRINGY-BARK COCKATOO
  22. 22.THE EUMERELLA SHORE
  23. 23.JIMMY SAGO, JACKAROO — (Air: “Wearing of the Green.”)
  24. 24.THE PLAINS OF RIVERINE
  25. 25.THE SHEEP-WASHERS’ LAMENT — (Air: “The Bonnie Irish Boy.”)
  26. 26.THE BROKEN-DOWN SQUATTER — (Air: “It’s a fine hunting day.”)
  27. 27.THE FREE SELECTOR — (A Song of 1861.)
  28. 28.A NATIONAL SONG FOR AUSTRALIA FELIX
  29. 29.SUNNY NEW SOUTH WALES
  30. 30.BRINGING HOME THE COWS
  31. 31.THE DYING STOCKMAN — (Air: “The Old Stable Jacket.”)
  32. 32.MY MATE BILL
  33. 33.SAM HOLT — (Air: “Ben Bolt.”)
  34. 34.THE BUSHMAN — (Air: “Wearing of the Green.”)
  35. 35.HAWKING — (Air: “Bow, Wow, Wow.”)
  36. 36.COLONIAL EXPERIENCE — (Air: “So Early in the Morning.”)
  37. 37.THE STOCKMEN OF AUSTRALIA
  38. 38.IT’S ONLY A WAY HE’S GOT — (As sung by the camp fire.)
  39. 39.THE LOAFERS’ CLUB
  40. 40.THE OLD KEG OF RUM
  41. 41.THE MURRUMBIDGEE SHEARER
  42. 42.THE SWAGMAN
  43. 43.THE STOCKMAN — (Air: “A wet sheet and a flowing sea.”)
  44. 44.THE MARANOA DROVERS — (Air: “Little Sally Waters.”)
  45. 45.RIVER BEND — (Air: “Belle Mahone.”)
  46. 46.SONG OF THE SQUATTER
  47. 47.WALLABI JOE — (Air: “The Mistletoe Bough.”)
  48. 48.THE SQUATTER OF THE OLDEN TIME — (Air: “A fine old English gentleman.”)
  49. 49.THE STOCKMAN’S LAST BED
  50. 50.MUSTERING SONG — (Air: “So Early in the Morning.”)
  51. 51.THE AUSTRALIAN STOCKMAN
  52. 52.THE SHEPHERD — (Air: “She Wore a Wreath of Roses.”)
  53. 53.THE OVERLANDER
  54. 54.A THOUSAND MILES AWAY — (Air: “Ten Thousand Miles Away.”)
  55. 55.THE FREEHOLD ON THE PLAIN — (Air: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane.”)
  56. 56.THE WALLABY BRIGADE
  57. 57.MY RELIGION
  58. 58.BOURKE’S DREAM
  59. 59.BILLY BARLOW IN AUSTRALIA

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