平遥古城旅游报价:Australia's on the Wallaby

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Australia's on the Wallaby

Our fathers came to search for gold

The mine has proved a duffer

From bankers boss and syndicate

We always had to suffer

They fought for freedom for themselves

Themselves and mates to toil

But Australia's sons are weary

And the billy's on the boil

Chorus

Australia's on the wallaby

Just listen to the coo-ee

For the kangaroo he rolls his swag

And the emu shoulders bluey

The boomerangs are whizzing round

The dingo scratches gravel

The possum bear and bandicoot

Are all upon the travel

The cuckoo calls the bats and now

The pigeon and the shag

The mallee-hen and platypus

Are rolling up their swag

For the curlew sings a sad farewell

Beside the long lagoon

And the brolga does his last-way waltz

To the lyrebird's mocking tune

There's tiger-snakes and damper, boys

And what's that on the coals?

There's droughts and floods and ragged duds

And dried-up waterholes

There's shadeless trees and sun-scorched plains

All asking us to toil

But Australia's sons are weary

And the billy's on the boil

Notes

From Old Bush Recitations , collected by "Bill Bowyang" and published in 1933. To go "on the wallaby" or "on the wallaby track" or to "hump the drum" is to travel outback as a swaggie or sundowner, i.e. a tramp or itinerant worker. John Meredith collected a version from Noah Warren, a miner from Lithgow NSW, who got it from Joe Young who learned in Cairns. In that version the first verse goes:

Our fathers came in search for gold
The claim it proved a duffer
The syndicates and bankers' bosses
Made us all suffer
We're all for freedom for ourselves
Ourselves our mates of toil
Australia's sons are weary
And the billy's on the boil

Meredith notes that the tune "is a variant of the tune used in northern Queensland for Lawson's 'Freedom on the Wallaby'".

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