The Penguin Australian song book / compiled with notes by John Manifold.
Material type: ScorePublication details: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1964.Description: [xii], 180 p. : ill., music ; 13 x 20 cmSubject(s):Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Class number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | VWML | Hamer Bequest | MPS 60 (36) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Reprinted 1965. | 20973 | ||||
Books | VWML | Shepard Collection | Storage | MPS 60 (36) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Reference only | Reprinted 1965. | 15296 |
Words and music (vocal line and guitar chords) of 88 songs.
Contents: Bound for South Australia (capstan chanty) - Bound for South Australia (halyard) - The little fish - Maggie May - Ten thousand miles away - The girl with the black velvet band - Jim Jones - Van Diemen's Land - Moreton Bay - Moreton Bay (another tune) - The convict maid - The Catalpa - Botany Bay - My last farewell to Stirling - The Isle de France The pommy's lament - Sixteen thousand miles from home - Billy Barlow in Australia - With my swag all on my shoulder, or, Denis O'Riley - The old Palmer song - Tambaroora gold (two versions) - Look out below! - The miner My name is Ben Hall - Bold Jack Donahue - Bold Jack Donahue (another version) - The wild colonial boy - The wild colonial boy (another version) - Ballad of Ben Hall's Gang - Ballad of Ben Hall's Gang (another version) - Frank Gardiner - The streets of Forbes - The death of Ben Hall - My name is Edward Kelly - Ned Kelly's farewell to Greta (two versions) - Ye sons of Australia - Stringybark Creek - Stringybark Creek (another version) - The ballad of Kelly's Gang - Mustering day - The dying stockman - The dying stockman (another version) - The stockman's last bed - The stockman's last bed (another version) - The old bark hut - The old bark hut (another version) - The station cook - Old Black Alice - Jacky Jacky - Five and a zack - The ram of Dalby - Euabalong Ball - The Stringybark cockatoo - Oh, give me a hut (The free selector) - The cockies of Bungaree - Eumerella Shore - The limejuice tub (The whalers' rhyme) - The Inglewood cocky, or, The New England cocky - The Queensland drover (The overlander) - The Queensland drover (another version) - The union boy - The ryebuck shearer - Ladies of Brisbane (The drover's song) - Ladies of Brisbane (Augathella Station) - The drover's dream - Goorianawa - Widgegoara Joe (the blackblock shearer) - The banks of the Condamine - The banks of the Condamine (another version) - Flash Jack from Gundagai - Bullocky o - The sheepwasher - Bill the Bullocky - The old bullock dray - Humping old bluey - I've just come from Sydney - The Reedy Lagoon - Wild rover no more - The commissioner - The broken down squatter - Billygoat Overland - Travelling down the Castlereagh - Waltzing Matilda (the Cowan version) - Waltzing Matilda - The shearer's dream - Freedom on the wallaby - The rabbiter - Cane killed Abel - The death of Ned Kelly - Andy's gone with cattle.