Favourite Australian bush songs
By: compiled by Lionel Long and Graham Jenkin
Contributors: Jenkin, Graham
Publisher: Rigby
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Adelaide
Language: eng; swe
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: English Folk songs; History and criticism
Notes: Unacc. melodies.
Table of contents: title: Convicts' songs. Botany Bay ; Moreton Bay ; The Black Velvet Band ; Van Diemen's land ; Jim Jones; title: Bush rangers' songs. Bold Jack Donahoe ; The wild colonial boy ; The ballad of Ben Hall's gang ; Frank Gardiner ; John Gilbert ; Stringy bark Creek; title: Stockmen's and drovers' songs. The Queensland Drover ; The stockman's last bed ; The drover's dream ; Augathella Station ; Travelling down the castlereagh ; The dying stockman ; A thousand miles away ; The freehold on the plain; title: Shearers' songs. Click go the shears ; The lime juice tub ; The banks of the Condamine ; The backblocks shearer ; Waiting for the rain ; The springtime it brings on the shearing ; Jog along till shearing ; Bluey brink ; The ballad of Eighteen Ninety-One ; Flash Jack from Gundagai ; The hut that's upside down; title: Swagmen's songs. Waltzing Matilda ; The old bark hut ; The sheepwasher's lament ; Wild rover no more ; The Reedy Lagoon ; On the road to Gundagai (Lazy Harry's); title: Goldrush songs. The jolly puddlers ; The green new chum ; Look out below! ; Shepherding ; Where's your licence? ; Laying information; title: Miscellaneous. The canecutters' lament ; Bold Tommy Payne ; The old bullock dray ; A nautical yarn ; Wallaby stew ; Euabalong ball ; The station cook.