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Main Title: Songs of Australian working life / compiled by Therese Radic.
Author: Radic, ThereÇse, 1935-
Imprint: Greenhouse, 1989.
Collation: xii, 195 p. : ill., facsims., music, pbk,; 28 cm.
Subject: Songs, Australian
Folk songs
ISBN: 0864361238 (pbk.)
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes some songs in foreign languages with parallel English text.
Contents: Moreton Bay. The Catalpa. Ben Hall. In a ramshackle hut. The wild colonial boy. The mild colonial boy. Click go the shears. The springtime it brings on the shearing. The banks of the Condamine. Flash Jack from Gundagai. Lazy Harry's. All for me grog, or Across the Western Plains. Across the Western Plains. Australia's happy land, or Come and join the union. Come and join the union. Travelling down the Castlereagh. The flash stockman. Ladies of Brisbane, or Augathella Station. Augathella Station. The Maranoa Drover. The sandy Maranoa. Where the brumbies come to water. The Queensland drover. The Overlander. The dying stockman. Cane killed Abel. The cane cutters' lament. The cane gang. My traps are all a-jangle. The rabbit trapper's song. The buyer on our run. Bullocky-o. The Great Northern Line. The cockies of Bungaree. The conservationist. Look out below. The miner. The Chinamen. Man of the Earth. Give us our twopence back. The Union boy. The ballad of 1891. After the strike. Struggle in the west. Hogan's Flat. Freedom's on the Wallaby. The ballad of Eureka. Shores of Botany Bay. To Dr. Mannix. Last work we go home. Queensland whaler. Cock of the morning. Sailor home from the sea. We built some great ships. Ship repairing men. The anti-fouling roll. The Launceston and Deloraine Railway. Billy Sheehan. The Granville Rail disaster.
The poison train. The hungry mile. Waltzing Matilda (two versions). The Sandy Hollow Line. Soup. Battler's ballad. Weevils in the flour. Mandrake. Les Darcy. Keep your tail up, Kangaroo. Up there Cazaly. The TAB punters' song. The land where the crow flies backwards. Prison's nothing special. Victor Podham's rusty hut. Gurindji blues. The housewife's lament. The old man and his wife. Wallaby stew. Gentle Annie. The rebel girl. Bread and roses. Wife to a cockie farmer. Hush little baby. Don't be too polite girls. The pineapple trimmers. The boning room ladies. The basic wage dream. A first class boiler maker. Isa. Song of the sheetmetal worker. Peter the Cabby. Journeyin'. Pickin' up the spuds. The Southern Cross is calling me. The West Gate Bridge disaster. The weekend warrior. Freiheit. I'm going back again to Yarrawonga. Go to the war, toiler. The peatbog soldiers. Kevin Conway. Fixin' to die rag. Canakkale Icinde at Gallipoli. El Pueblo unido. Bella Ciao. Sebben che siamo donne. Ballad of the sunworshippers. Bir Mayis. Bellogiannis lives. Australian steelworks. The Commonwealth of Toil. Today black is the sky. The Marseillaise. The Internationale. The Red Flag. Solidarity forever.
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