A workshop presented at 2019 Bush Traditions Gathering, Yass, October 2019 by Sandra Nixon.
Most songs use the page from the original source, but some songs were retyped, & several contained typos so have been replaced by the original page. 20 songs were chosen for singing at the workshop.
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1.
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2. To celebrate the Bush Music Club’s 65 Anniversary, I chose 65 songs published in, or referred to in BMC publications - (Newsletter 1955 to 1978), Singabout (1956 to 1963) & Mulga Wire (1977 to date) for a workshop at Bush Traditions Gathering at Yass, October 2019. The songs are those that appealed to me, in some years I had to choose from many wonderful songs, other years an occasional song was mentioned in a review or an interview!
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3. Table of Contents
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4. Bound for Darling Harbour, by Merv. Lilley, 1954 - Bushwhacker Broadside, later published in Singabout 1(1), Summer 1956, p.15
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5. Stringybark Creek, 1955 Bushwhacker Broadside
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6. Cane killed Abel by Merv. Lilley, music Chris Kempster
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7. The Little Fish, collected from Dick Fitzgerald & Jack Wright
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8-9. Shearing in a Bar by Duke Tritton
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9.
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10. The Wild Colonial Boy sent to the Editor by Mr Theo Archdeacon
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11. When Jones Ale Was New as sung by Simon McDonald Creswick, Vic.
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12-13. The Albury Ram
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13.
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14. The Little Sparrow, music John Meredith, words Launcelot Harrison
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15. Goorianawa by Duke Tritton
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16-17. The Sandy Hollow Line by Duke Tritton
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17.
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18. The Peach Picker's Song by John & Norm Dengate. Norm complained about his son only singing shearing songs, so John suggested he write something, & the chorus was the result.
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19. Do you think that I do not know by Henry Lawson, tune Chris Kempster
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20. Dinky Di
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21-22. Wee Pot Stove by Harry Robertson
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22.
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23. Across the Western Suburbs by Denis Kevans & Seamus Gill
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24. Ballad of Norman Brown by Dorothy Hewett
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25. Broken Down Squatter by Charles Flower
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26. The Woodturners Lovesong by Phyl Lobl
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27-28. The Cockie's Lament (aka Mortein Spray or That Cockroach Song) by Concert Party member Doug Richardson
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28.
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29. The Sailor Home from the Sea by Dorothy Hewett
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30. Shoalhaven by former Concert Party member Peter Cahill
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31. Hughie, The Rouseabout's Prayer by Duke Tritton
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30. The Good Old Concertina, by Henry Lawson, tune Bob Bolton
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31. 65 songs, page 1
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32. 65 songs, page 2.
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33. Citations for the songs - 1954 to 1975
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34. Citations for the songs - 1976 to 1991
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35. Citations for the songs - 1992 to 2007
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36. Citations for the songs - 2008 to 2019
Thanks to authors or their literary executors for allowing their songs to be reproduced - Dr Diane Bull (Duke Tritton), Tom Flood (Dorothy Hewett, Merv Lilley), Dale Dengate (John Dengate), Phyl Lobl, Lyn & Evan Mathieson (Harry Robertson), Doug Richardson, Peter Cahill,
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