FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Ol' Mike's Philosophy and Foolishness

Mike Oatman

FOLK COLL 11 O-14

152

Edgar A. Guest

Real People

The backbone of the nation is the happy-hearted throng Of ordinary people who go swinging along.

good attributes, church goers, self-sufficiency

Ol' Mike's Philosophy and Foolishness

Mike Oatman

FOLK COLL 11 O-14

153

Anonymous

I'm Special

I'm special. In all the world there's nobody like me. Since the beginning of time, there has never been another person like me. Nobody has my smile. Nobody has my eyes, my nose, my hair, my hands, my voice. I'm special.

uniqueness, eternity, personality

Ol' Mike's Philosophy and Foolishness

Mike Oatman

FOLK COLL 11 O-14

154

Joan Stephen

The Only Star

Is that you, Mom? That one, lone star -- The one so bright; The one so far.

star, mother, protection

Ol' Mike's Philosophy and Foolishness

Mike Oatman

FOLK COLL 11 O-14

155

Anonymous

God Hears Prayers

If radio's slim fingers can pluck a melody From night, and toss it over A continent or sea;

prayer, listening, noise

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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FOLK COLL 11P-40

Banjo Paterson

Prelude

I have gathered theses stories afar In the wind and the rain, In the land where the cattle-camps are, On the edge of the plain.

introduction, stories, memories

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Clancy of the Overflow

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan years ago; He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just on spec, addressed as follows, "Clancy, of the Overlow

townsfolk, cattleman, outback

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Geebung Polo Club

It was somewhere up in the wddfff It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub, That they formed an institution called the Geebung Polo Club.

polo, club, smooth

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Lost

"He ought to be home," said the old man. "without there's something amiss. He only went to the Two-mile - he ought to be back by this. He would ride the Reckless filly, he would have his wilful way; And here, he's not back at sundown - and what will his mother say?

lost, accident, death

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

The Man From Snowy River

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around That the cold from old Regret had got away, And had joined the wild bush horses - he was worth a thousand pound, So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.

horesman, trainer, endurance

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

The Swagman's Rest

We buried old Bob where the bloodwoods wave At the foot of the Eaglehawk; We fashioned a cross on the old man's grave With the date of his sad decease And in place of "Died from effects of spree" We wrote "May he rest in peace."

grave, traveler, fishing

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

The Road to Hogan's Gap

Now look, you see, it's this way like- You cross the broken bridge And run the crick down, till you strike The second right-hand ridge.

bridge, road, travel

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Song of the Wheat

We have sung the song of the droving days, Of the march of the travelling sheep- how by silent stages and lonely ways Thin, white battalions creep.

wheat, song, march

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Mulga Bill's Bicycle

"Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him many days; He dressed himself in cycling clothes, resplendent to be seen;

crash, horse, bicycle

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Waltzing Matilda

Oh! there once was a swagman camped in a Billabong, Under the shade of a Coolabah tree; And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling, "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

swagman, drown, phrase

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Saltbush Bill

Now this is a law of the Overland that all in the West obey- A man must cover with travelling sheep a six-mile sage a day; But this is the law which the dravers make, right easily understood, They travel their stage where the grass is bad, but they camp where the grass is good;

drover, kangaroo, drought

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

In Defence of the Bush

So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went, And you're cursing all the business in a bitter discontent;.

weather, wilderness, challenge

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

When Dacey Road the Mulle

'Twas to a small, up-country town, When we were boys at school, There came a circus with a clown, Likewise a bucking mule.

song, ride, zoo

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Shearing at Castlereagh

The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, So stir yourselves, you penners-up, and shove the sheep along -

shear, sheep, wool

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

The First Surveyor

"The opening of the railway line! - the Governor and all! With flags and banners down the street, a banquet and a ball.

surveyor, railway, travel

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

How Gilbert Died

There's never a stone at the sleeper's head, There's never a fence beside, And the wandering stock on the grave may tread Unnoticed and undenied; But the smallest child on the Watershed Can tell you how Gilbert died.

death, outlaw, hunt

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

The Man From Ironbark

It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up and down.

murder, shave, barber

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

A Bush Christening

On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few, And men of religion are scanty, On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost One Michael Magee had a shanty.

church, christening, chase

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

In the Droving Days

"Only a pound," said the auctioneer, "Only a pound; and I'm standing here Selling this animal, gain or loss - Only a pound for the drover's horse?

auction, plain, horse

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Song of the Artesian Water

Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought; But we're sick of prayers and Providence - we're going to do without; With the derricks up above us and the solid earth below, We are waiting at the lever for the word to let her go.

water, well, digging

Poems of Banjo Paterson

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Banjo Paterson

Johnson's Antidote

Down along the Snakebite River where the overlanders camp, Where the serpents are in millions, all of the most deadly stamp; Where the station-cook in terror, nearly every time he bakes, Mixes up among the doughboys half a dozen poison-snakes;

snakebite, fight, cure