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John Meredith & Hugh Anderson: Folk Songs of Australia

John Meredith & Hugh Anderson

Folk Songs of Australia
And the Men and Women Who Sang Them, Volume 1
Sydney: Ure Smith, 1967

The Songs

Part One: Songs collected in and around Sydney

Jack Luscombe

  1. The Ryebuck Shearer (Roud 24820)
  2. Click, Click, That’s How the Shears Go (Roud 8398)
  3. Sam Griffith (Roud 38547)
  4. Kelly Song

Ina Popplewell

  1. Frank Gardiner (Roud 9117)
  2. Willie Reilly (Roud 538; Laws M10; G/D 6:1097; Henry H234)
  3. As I Was a-Walking (Roud 714; Laws N38; G/D 5:1033; Henry H76)
  4. The Battle Cry of Freedom (Roud V20863)
  5. Sydney Cup Day
  6. Take Me Down the Harbour
  7. Botany Bay [Henry Pottinger Stephens, William Yardley] (Roud 3267)

Jack ‘Hoopiron’ Lee

  1. The Backblock Shearer (Roud 24818)
  2. The Old Man Kangaroo (Roud 20409)
  3. The Broken-Down Squatter [Charles Augustus Flower] (Roud 8392)
  4. The Maid and the Magpie (Roud 1532)
  5. The Old Jig Jog (Roud 29041)
  6. The Stockman’s Last Bed (Roud 9113)

Colin Lee

  1. Varsovienna

Mary and Tom Byrnes

  1. The Wreck of the Dandenong (Roud 22670)
  2. The Black Velvet Band (Roud 2146)
  3. The Rich Old Farmer (Roud 262; Laws P1; G/D 5:1059; Henry H188)
  4. Whiskey in the Jar (Roud 533; Laws L13A; Henry H792)
  5. Donald of Glencoe (Roud 515; Laws N39; G/D 5:1044; Henry H655)
  6. Castle Gardens (Roud 1455)
  7. Leaving Old England
  8. A Starry Night for a Ramble (Roud 972)
  9. Travelling Down the Castlereagh (Roud 29041)
  10. The Hut That’s Upside Down (Roud 34877)
  11. Five Bob to Four (Roud 38582)
  12. On Board the Kangaroo (Roud 925; G/D 6:1211)
  13. Jacky Me Lad

Edwin Goodwin

  1. Dennis O’Reilly (Roud 676)
  2. Bold Jack Donahoe (Roud 611; Laws L22)
  3. Bound for Charlers Town (Roud 261; Laws L16; G/D 2:260; Henry H691, H202)
  4. Arthur Nolan (Roud 38473)
  5. Sixteen Thousand Miles From Home (Roud 38667)
  6. The Convict’s Return (Roud V9109)
  7. Wild Rover (Roud 1173; G/D 7:1480)

Arthur Buchanan

  1. The Barley Mow (Roud 944)
  2. The Wild Colonial Boy (Roud 677; Laws L20; Henry H750)
  3. Waltzing Matilda [A.B. Paterson] (Roud 9536; Henry H566)
  4. Young Les Darcy (Roud 22607)

Joe Cashmere

  1. Polka-Mazurka
  2. Varsovienna
  3. Orphan Boy Waltz
  4. The Sydney Flash
  5. Step Dance (Jig)
  6. The Old Jig Jog (Roud 29041)
  7. Ten Thousand Miles Away [Joseph Bryan Geoghegan] (Roud 1778; G/D 6:1102)
  8. Caledonia (Roud 600; G/D 8:1535; Henry H151)
  9. Jog Along Till Shearing (Roud 38602)
  10. Wild Rover No More (Roud 1173; G/D 7:1480)

Madge Laver and Violet Skuthorpe

  1. Paddy Sheahan (Roud 983; Laws J11)
  2. The Dying Stockman (Roud 7994)
  3. The Stockman’s Last Bed (Roud 9113)
  4. Donald Campbell (Roud 22623)
  5. The Whip and the Spurs

Gladys Scrivener

  1. Waltzing Matilda [A.B. Paterson] (Roud 9536; Henry H566)
  2. Nine Miles From Gundagai (Roud 9121)
  3. Bound for Sydney Town (Roud 261; Laws L16; G/D 2:260; Henry H691, H202)
  4. Bold Jack Donahoe (Roud 611; Laws L22)
  5. Bold Ben Hall (Roud 3352)
  6. Ye Sons of Australia (Roud 5475)
  7. Gallant Peter Clarke (Roud 38479)
  8. When Carbine Won the Cup
  9. Cry “Look Out Below!” [Charles Thatcher] (Roud 27773)
  10. Where’s Your License? (Roud 27775)
  11. Workers of the World
  12. The River Fraser (Roud 30940)

Mrs Fraser-Paterson

  1. The Old Bark Hut (Roud 22662)

Jim Bourke

  1. The Gun Canecutter
  2. The Canecutter’s Lament (Roud 38569)
  3. Mazlim’s Mills (Roud 38614)

Jim Parker

  1. When the New York Boat Comes Down
  2. The Bullockies’ Ball (Roud 38534)

Jack Jackman

  1. The Derby Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
  2. Botany Bay [Henry Pottinger Stephens, William Yardley] (Roud 3267)
  3. Five Miles From Gundagai (Roud 9121)

Charles Ayger

  1. Castles in the Air (Roud 13494)
  2. The Shearer’s Dream [Henry Lawson] (Roud 5473)
  3. Mirabeau

Bill Foster

  1. The Dying Bagman

Jamie Carlin

  1. The Little Fish (Roud 5477)
  2. The Derby Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
  3. Dennis O’Reilly (Roud 676)

Ron Manton

  1. The Banks of the Condamine (Roud 8224)
  2. The Wild Colonial Boy (Roud 677; Laws L20; Henry H750)
  3. Humping Old Bluey (Roud 38593)
  4. Mrs McGrath (Roud 678; Henry H131)

Collie Bourke

  1. The Old Bullock Dray (Roud 22603)
  2. Wild Rover No More (Roud 1173; G/D 7:1480)

Jack Wright

  1. Garrawilla (Roud 38587)
  2. Fol-the-Diddle-Di-Doh
  3. Jimmy Sago, Jackeroo (Roud 8394)
  4. Sixteen Thousand Miles From Home (Roud 38667)
  5. The Little Fish (Roud 5477)

Sid Heather

  1. The Wonderful Crocodile (Roud 886; G/D 8:1700; Henry H231a)

Cyril Ticehurst

  1. The Bright Shades of Blue (Roud 38483)
  2. Native Mate (Roud 38634)
  3. Tramp the Bushes of Australia (Roud 676)
  4. Tom Corrigan (Roud 38528)
  5. Moreton Bay (Roud 2537)
  6. Rob-a-Dub-a-Dub (Roud 22605)

Bill Hughes

  1. Shearerman recitation
  2. Little Bit of Sugar
  3. The Dying Aviator (Roud 3454)
  4. Machine-Guns They Rattle
  5. Down Fell the Old Nag

Alec Hood

  1. The Black Velvet Band (Roud 2146)
  2. The Jockey’s Lament

Delys Cross

  1. Jackie Jackie (Roud 38601)

Ben Castle

  1. The Wild Colonial Boy (Roud 677; Laws L20; Henry H750)
  2. Are You There, Moriarity? (Roud 37139)
  3. Castle Gardens (Roud 9744)
  4. Death of Alec Robertson (Roud 38473)
  5. Alec Robertson (Roud 38473)

John Linigen

  1. Alec Robertson (Roud 38473)
  2. Jack Dowling (Roud 677; Laws L20; Henry H750)
  3. Inky Dinky Derby Town (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)

Leo Dixon

  1. Another Fall of Rain [John Neilson] (Roud 22614)
  2. The Eumerella Shore (Roud 679)

Herb Gimbert

  1. Herb’s Jig
  2. The Flying Pieman

Part Two: Songs from west of the Blue Mountains—Lithgow, Mudgee, Gulgong

Bill Boundy

  1. Mary’s Ass (Roud 3351)
  2. The Dogs’ Meeting (Roud 5474)

Sally Sloane

  1. Ben Hall (Roud 3352)
  2. The Banks of Claudy (Roud 266; Laws N40; G/D 5:1036; Henry H5, H693)
  3. The Maid of Fainey (Roud 1417)
  4. The Wee One (Roud 357)
  5. The Cherry Tree (Roud 2947)
  6. If I Was a Blackbird (Roud 387; Henry H79)
  7. The Girls on the Shamrock Shore (Roud 3365)
  8. Lovely Molly (Roud 454; G/D 6:1192; Henry H615, H625)
  9. The Green Bushes (Roud 1040; Laws P2; Henry H143)
  10. The Rambling Sailor (Roud 518; G/D 7:1477)
  11. Girl With the Flowing Hair (Roud 38500)
  12. I’ve Been a Wild Boy (Roud 3366)
  13. My Bonny Love Is Young (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222)
  14. Lovely Nancy (Roud 165)
  15. The Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180)
  16. The Coolgardie Miner (Roud 19110)
  17. Varsovienna
  18. Coming Down the Mountain
  19. Jack’s Waltz
  20. Annie Shaw’s Tune
  21. Mum’s Mazurka
  22. John Doolan (Roud 677; Laws L20; Henry H750)
  23. The Wallaby Track (Roud 24821)
  24. Springtime It Brings On the Shearing [E.J. Overbury] (Roud 38489)
  25. I Think by This Time He’s Forgot Her
  26. The Journeyman Tailor (Roud 671)
  27. Christ Was Born in Bethlehem (Roud 1122)
  28. The Warrego Lament (Roud 22625)
  29. Ballad of the Drover (Roud 22624)
  30. The Black Velvet Band (Roud 2146)
  31. The Shoemaker’s Son (Roud 22626)
  32. Click Go the Shears (Roud 8398)
  33. Gargal Machree (Roud 1020)
  34. The Knickerbocker Line (Roud 2149)
  35. Molly Baun Lavery (Roud 166; Laws O36; Henry H114)
  36. My Son Ted (Roud 678; Henry H131)

Noah Warren

  1. Australia’s on the Wallaby (Roud 24705; AFS 322)

Chris Williams

  1. He Was Boasting of His Shearing (Roud 10279)
  2. The Union Girl recitation
  3. The Drover’s Dream (Roud 5473)

Billy Shawcross

  1. Kelly Was Their Captain (Roud 22628) recitation

R.J. Blumer

  1. The Spider From the Gwydir (Roud 22629) recitation

Muriel Whalan

  1. Tambaroora Gold (Roud 29040)
  2. Ballad of the Drover (Roud 22624)
  3. The Pommy’s Lament (Roud 38646)
  4. Sergean Small (Roud 38474)

The Blackman Family

  1. A Bushman’s Song (Roud 29041)
  2. The Love-of-God Shave (Roud 571; Laws Q15)
  3. When Carbine Won the Cup
  4. The Girls of Ulan (Roud 22663) recitation
  5. As I Was a-Walking (Roud 714; Laws N38; G/D 5:1033; Henry H76)
  6. The Banks of the Riverine (Roud 8224)
  7. Jig
  8. Navvy on the Line (Roud V22720)
  9. The Mudgee Schottische
  10. Varsovienna

George Davis

  1. Sailor’s Hornpipe
  2. Spookendyke’s Waltz
  3. The Mudgee Schottische
  4. The Mudgee Waltz (Cyril Abbott’ version)
  5. The Mudgee Waltz (George Davis’ version)
  6. The Heel and Toe Polka

Arthur Davis

  1. The Warrego Lament (Roud 22625)

Mick and Tom Brennan

  1. Ye Landlords of Ireland (Roud 20408)
  2. On the Steps of the Dole Office Door
  3. The Dying Stockman (Roud 7994)

Morrie Burchell

  1. Duck-Foot Sue [Harry Bennett] (Roud 9553)

Fred, Vince, and Keith Holland

  1. White Man, Let Me Go (Roud 2055)
  2. The Mudgee Waltz
  3. The Mudgee Schottische
  4. Varsovienna
  5. Polka-Mazurka
  6. Schottische
  7. The Harvest Moon Schottische

Ernie Sibley

  1. Snakes recitation
  2. The Ryebuck Shearer (Roud 24820)

Jim Lyons

  1. The Mudgee Schottische
  2. The Broken-Down Squatter [Charles Augustus Flower] (Roud 8392)

Fred Large

  1. The Noomanally Shore (Roud 679)

Lindsay Carr

  1. The First Set (Lead-up Tune)
  2. Why Did She Leave Killarney?
  3. My Father Is a Dutchman

Mick Pilley

  1. Varsovienna
  2. I’ve Got a Saviour That’s Mighty to Keep

Tom Gibbons

  1. The Murder of Alan Beyne recitation
  2. Caledonio (Roud 600; G/D 8:1535; Henry H151)
  3. My Beautiful Muff (Roud 1402)
  4. The Kelly Gang (Roud 22593)

Jim Gibbons

  1. How Tattersall’s Cup Was Won (Roud 38473) recitation
  2. Clancy’s Prayer recitation

Mrs Mason

  1. The Wild Colonial Boy (Roud 677; Laws L20; Henry H750)

Bill Coughlin

  1. Union Boy (Roud 518)
  2. Boston City (Roud 261; Laws L16; G/D 2:260; Henry H691, H202)
  3. On the Banks of the Murray (Roud 5476)
  4. Springtime It Brings On the Shearing [E.J. Overbury] (Roud 38489)

Tom Tattersall

  1. On the Banks of the Old Omaha (Roud 38536)
  2. The Little Rosewood Casket (Roud 426)

Herb Tattersall

  1. Old Dan Tucker (Roud 390)
  2. Oh, Bedad Then, Says I (Roud 847)
  3. Stringybark
  4. Cant-Hook and Wedges
  5. Cant-Hook and Wedges
  6. Rock All Our Babies (Roud 4378)

‘Cat’ McManus

  1. The Maiden’s Prayer (Roud 18828)

‘Duke’ Tritton

  1. Goorianawa (Roud 9114)
  2. Ballad of the Drover (Roud 22624)
  3. Taking His Chance (Roud 22627)
  4. The Shores of Botany Bay (Roud 29036)
  5. Ten Thousand Miles Away [Joseph Bryan Geoghegan] (Roud 1778; G/D 6:1102)
  6. The Great Northern Line (Roud 24809)
  7. The War Correspondent (Roud 29039)
  8. Shearing at Castlereagh (Roud 29038)
  9. Good for a Rush or a Rally (Roud 38538)
  10. The Irishman’s Goldmine

Thomas Bleakley

  1. The Neumerella Shore (Roud 679)
  2. The Place Where the Old Horse Died (Roud 23627)

Mr W.R. Chisholm

  1. The Place Where the Old Horse Died (Roud 23627)

Charlie Rundle

  1. When You Go to Get Your Shears