We were challenged by The Dingoes , they're the pride of Squatter's Gap, To a friendly game of football on the flat by Devil's Trap. And we went along on horses, sworn to triumph in the game,...
There's a fresh track down the paddock Through the lightwoods to the creek, And I notice Billy Craddock And Maloney do not speak, And The Snag is slyly bitter When he's criticising Bill,...
From her home beyond the river in the parting of the hills, Where the wattles fleecy blossom surged and scattered in the breeze, And the tender creepers twined about the chimneys and the sills,...
All was up with Richard Tanner 'Wait-a-Bit' we called him. Dead? Yes. The braceman dropped a spanner, Landed Richard on the head; Cracked his skull, sir, like a teacup, Down the pump-shaft in the well....
Skirting the swamp and the tangled scrub, Tramping and turning amidst the trees, Carrying nothing but blankets and grub, Careless of pleasure and health and ease, Hither and thither with never a goal,...
When Flo resolved to go to town from brothers three a yell went up, Predicting ruin and distress. Bill in his horror dropped a cup. 'Gorstruth!' he said, 'in Sydney there what is a simple girl to do?...
I took to khaki at a word, And fashioned dreams of wonder. I rode the great sea like a bird, Chock full of blood and thunder. I saw myself upon the field Of battle, framed in glory,...
I said: 'I leave my bit of land, In khaki they've entwined me, I go abroad to lend a hand.' Said she: 'My love, I understand. I will be true, and though we part A thousand years you hold my heart",...
We were storemen, clerks and packers on an ammunition dump Twice the size of Cootamundra, and the goods we had to hump They were bombs as big as water-butts, and cartridges in tons,...