The Station Cook
The song I'm going to sing to you will not detain you long
It's all about a station cook we had at old Pinyong
His pastry was so beautiful his cooking was so fine
It gave us all a stomach-ache right through the shearing-time
Oh you should see his plum-duffs his doughboys and his pies
I swear by Long Maloney they'd open a shearer's eyes
He'd say take your time, good fellows and he'd fix us with a glance
Saying I'll dish you up much better if you'll give me half a chance
Oh you should his doughboys his dumplings and his pies
The thought of such luxuries would open a shearer's eyes
He gets up in the morning gives us plenty of stewed tea
And don't forget when shearing's done to sling the cook his fee
But oh dear! I feel so queer I don't know what to do
The thought of leaving Fowler's Bay just breaks my heart in two
But if ever I catch that slushy I'll make him rue the day
That he ruined my constitution while shearing at Fowler's Bay.
Notes
Printed in Stewart and Keesing Old Bush Songs with the note: "From Dr Percy Jones's collection". Sung to the same tune as 'Lachlan Tigers', a tune related to the Scottish song 'Musselburgh Fair'. Sally Sloane had a song, learnt from her step father, called 'Knickerbocker Line', which uses the same tune 'The Station Cook' is also known as 'Fowler's Bay'