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An interesting collection of songs.
Tambaroora Gold - a composite put together for the first Penguin Australian Songster which was a mainstay of the Bush Music Club in the early 1970s when I first went to the Beer and Cheese Nights at Burwood.
Black Billy Tea was learnt from an ABC Songbook when I was first teaching primary school. I lost the original version then added a couple of verses 'cos it was too short. The original I rediscovered was by New Zealander, Jack Charles and was published in a book called Black Billy Tea.
Way of the World is a Henry Lawson poem I felt needed a tune.
Old Sydney Town is a Phyl Lobl song that captures some of the spirit of the early settlement.
Waltzing Matilda is the Christina McPherson version that Richard McGoffin found and verified as being in her writing. Southern Cross recorded this for the ABC Big Country about McGoffin's work.
The Rambleer was in Paterson's Old Bush Songs without a tune so I gave it one.
Southern Markets is one of the many fine settings of bush poems by Graham Jenkin.
Biralla Station Ball was discovered in a collection of poems by Guy Eden, a contemporary of Lawson and Paterson. The setting is mine.
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An interesting collection of songs.
ReplyDeleteTambaroora Gold - a composite put together for the first Penguin Australian Songster which was a mainstay of the Bush Music Club in the early 1970s when I first went to the Beer and Cheese Nights at Burwood.
Black Billy Tea was learnt from an ABC Songbook when I was first teaching primary school. I lost the original version then added a couple of verses 'cos it was too short. The original I rediscovered was by New Zealander, Jack Charles and was published in a book called Black Billy Tea.
Way of the World is a Henry Lawson poem I felt needed a tune.
Old Sydney Town is a Phyl Lobl song that captures some of the spirit of the early settlement.
Waltzing Matilda is the Christina McPherson version that Richard McGoffin found and verified as being in her writing. Southern Cross recorded this for the ABC Big Country about McGoffin's work.
The Rambleer was in Paterson's Old Bush Songs without a tune so I gave it one.
Southern Markets is one of the many fine settings of bush poems by Graham Jenkin.
Biralla Station Ball was discovered in a collection of poems by Guy Eden, a contemporary of Lawson and Paterson. The setting is mine.
thanks, Dave
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