Research Catalog

Title

The overlander songbook / by Ron Edwards ; with decorations by the author.

Author

Edwards, Ron, 1930-2008

Publication

Holloways Beach, Qld. [Australia] : The Rams Skull Press, 1969.

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Details

Description

224 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Folk songs, English > Australia
• Folk songs, English
• Australia

Note

• A selection of 220 Australian folk songs.
• Unaccopmanied melodies, with chord symbols.
• Each song preceded by historical note and complete lyrics.
• "This revised volume combines the contents of The overlander songbook, 1st edition, Folksong and ballad, A quartpot of songs, Humping Old Bluey, [and] To the north, together with an additional 93 songs."

Contents

The iron gang. Van Dieman's land ; Moreton Bay ; Jim Jones at Botany Bay ; The Isle de France ; The black velvet band ; Botany Bay 1 ; Here's adieu to all judges and juries ; Botany Bay 2 ; Botany Bay 4 ; The catalpa -- Bail up. Bold Jack Donahoe ; The wild colonial boy 1 ; The wild colonial boy 2 ; The wild colonial boy 3 ; The wild colonial boy 4 ; The wild colonial boy 5 ; The wild colonial boy 6 ; John Gilbert ; Frank Gardiner ; Bushranger Jack Power ; The bold Kelly Gang ; Ned Kelly was an Irishman ; The Kelly Gang ; Those bold bushrangers ; We are two plucky troopers ; Lightning Jack -- Victorian diggings. Shepherding ; The first hole ; Who wouldn't be a digger ; The cabbage-tree hat ; The Nugget family ; A digger's dream ; By-and-by ; Brave Dorkins ; The good time coming ; The digger's last goodbye ; The digger's farewell -- More Gold!. The golden gullies of the Palmer ; The old Palmer song ; The rush to Port Curtis ; The good old sunset mine ; The golden west ; The nugget -- The law breakers. Where's your licence? ; Song of the trap ; The rowdy mob ; Justice on the mines ; Ta-ra-land-boom-de-ay ; Our Jack's come home today ; Our Jack's come out today -- The teamsters. The old bullock dray 1 ; The old bullock dray 2 ; The carrier's song ; The bullockie's ball ; Stringybark and greenhide ; The blooming Queensland side ; Mazlin's mill -- Drovers and stockmen. The overlander 1 ; The overlander 2 ; The overlander 3 ; The sandy Maranoa ; The reedy lagoon ; Travelling down the Castlereagh 1 ; Travelling down the Castlereagh 2 ; The drover's dream ; The bushman ; Mustering song 1 ; Mustering song 2 ; The banks of the Condamine 1 ; The banks of the Condamine 2 ; The banks of the Condamine 3 ; The banks of the Condamine 4 ; The drover (Brisbane ladies) ; The dying stockman ; The stockman's last bed -- Songs of the shed. Click go the shears 1 ; Click go the shears 2 ; Widgegowera Joe ; Jog along till shearing ; Another fall of rain ; The tar-boy's tub ; On the Flinders -- The strikers. The squatter's defeat ; The giraffe ; Australia's happy land ; After the strike -- Station life. Billy Barlow ; Roma downs ; Jimmy Sago, jackaroo ; The squatter of the olden time ; A thousand miles away ; The broken-down squatter 1 ; The broken-down squatter 2 -- The cocky. The Eumerella shore 1 ; The Eumerella shore 2 ; The good old Maranoa ; The freehold on the plain ; Bungaree ; The wood game ; The raspberry picker's song ; Oh, give me a hut -- Humping old bluey. Humping old bluey ; Australia's on the wallaby ; With my sway all on my shoulder ; Moriarty ; The tramp's song ; The shepherd ; The old bark hut 1 ; The old bark hut 2 ; The old bark hut 3 ; The old bark hut 4 ; River bend ; Hawking -- Sporting life. The Melbourne cup ; Let me go to the Bendigo ; Les Darcy ; Our oarsman ; The bully set sail ; The fisherman's ball ; Bold Tommy Payne ; Kangarooing -- Man's best friend. The old dog tray ; Wallabi Joe ; Old comrade ; The ballarat horse auctioneer ; The stolen horse ; Where the brumbies come to water -- The romantics. The German girls ; The sailor's love ; A maiden's prayer ; Love's request ; The ladie lagoon ; Tomorrow I'm losing my darling ; Devil-may-care ; A starry night for a ramble ; The pig-catcher's love song ; The hobble skirt -- To the north. To the north ; To the gulf ; The Kennedy men ; Mount Carbine ; Palm tree yard ; Sign-on day ; The cane cutter's lament ; Wet season blues -- The racial ballads. Mr. O'Keefe's adventures in Australia ; Sam Holt ; The combo's anthem ; Recruiting ; Jacky Jacky ; The Daly River-o! ; My name Lee See ; The new chum chinaman ; The Chinese swell ; Gilligan -- Songs of the islands. Mer kereba ged ; Japanese rumba ; Murray Island fishery ; Oh, T.I. ; Oh, T.I. (old version) ; What's a matter you? ; Lonely dog ; Monkey and turtle ; Last work, we go home ; Black swan ; Zogob-pe ; Kara sisi ; Edimge -- Exiles and immigrants. The pommy's lament ; The new chum's lament ; Brothers after all ; Bonny Broughshane ; Ireland over here ; Getting colonized ; English imitations ; Australia versus England -- The boozers. The brewer's glee ; The grog tent we got tipsy in ; The flash colonial barman ; The flash colonial barmaid ; The white-washed yankee ; Song ; The hearty good fellow ; When we're out upon the spree ; Lazy Harry's ; Bluey brink ; Lambed down ; The cunning old crow ; This old hat of mine ; Across the western plains ; The D.I. raid ; Wild rover no more -- The inner man. Damper and tea ; Salt junk ; Wollongong and Illawarra ; Open up the season, Fred! ; The boning room ladies ; Smoke not -- Songs of sea and coast. South Australia ; Bury the horse ; Heave up the anchor ; Haul away ; The press gang ; The wharfie's song ; A nautical yarn ; The ship that never returned ; Grace darling ; The fisherman and his child ; The wreck of the Yonglia -- The railways. The sunshine disaster ; The dying fettler ; Dead drunk ; Farewell to the pick & shovel -- Round the town. Colonial barbers ; The ham fat man ; Rifle brigade ; A difficult riddle ; My name it is McCarty

Call Number

JMD 72-22

LCCN

74240651

OCLC

10264800

Author

Edwards, Ron, 1930-2008, compiler, ill.

Title

The overlander songbook / by Ron Edwards ; with decorations by the author.

Imprint

Holloways Beach, Qld. [Australia] : The Rams Skull Press, 1969.

Edition

[2d ed.].

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JMD 72-22