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Contents - 1103 Songs and Poems

A Spectre is Haunting Europe (1936)
An Old Bush Song (1860s)
Australian Folk Songs (1976)
Bagman's Ballad (1931)
A Ballad of Bernie's Stall (1940)
A Ballad of the Road (1931)
A Ballad of Broken Hill (1892)
A Ballad of Sydney (1930)
The Ballad of the Bounding Bishop (1922)
The Ballad of The Bricklayers Daughter (1922)
Aboriginals on Strike (1892)
An Aboriginal Strike (1913)
Aboriginal Protest To Police (1933)
Among the Sheep (1921)
A Case of On The Dole (1933)
A 'Call To Arms' (1962)
A Bicycle Song (1896)
A Bicycle Song (1898)
A Bicycle Song (1900)
A Blacksmith's Song (1878)
The Blacksmith (1887) (1887)
A Buck-Jumping Ballad (1899)
The Bulldozer Song (1965)
Bushwhackers at Lithgow (1954)
The Coal Owners' Song (1875)
A Football Ode (1905)
A Female Sailor (1873)
A Gravedigger's Song (1898)
A Song of Rebels (1918)
A Snob Song! (1922)
A Tale of the Bunyip (1893)
A Toast To Erin (1913)
The Anthem of Sailor Bill (1925)
An Odd Ode (1961)
An Ode (1878)
An Ode To the Phone (1947)
Another Trawler Song (1916)
Along The Cudgegong (1928)
Ballads of Coal Miners (1939)
Ballad of Norman Brown (1957)
The Basic Wage Dream (1964)
Barton V. O'Malley(1898)
The Barman's Christmas Tale(1933)
Bicycle Song (1897)
Billy Can (1915)
A Blacksmith's Song (1878)
That day I will be free (1835)
The Black Billy (1893)
The Blacksmith of Limerick (1908)
The Bluejacket's Lament (1893)
The Bonny Black Mare (1927)
The Bottom Dog (1951)
The Boundary Rider's Wife (1898)
The Boundary Rider (1900)
The Boundary Rider (1927)
The Boundary Rider (1945)
The Boundary-riders' Social (1903)
The Boundary Rider's Wife (1898)
Buns For Tea (1934)
Bunyip Station of the Great Speewah (1937)
A Bushie Looks Back (1933)
A Bushman's Farewell
To His Cabbage Tree Hat
(1925)
A Bushman's Lament (1893)
The Bushranger (1903)
The Bushranger's Song (1847)
A Butcher's Lament;
Or, Adieu To Wednesday
(1909)
Butcher's Lament;(1947)
By Dandenong(1939)
A Cane-Cutter's Song (1911)
Cantering Song (1946)
The Carpenter (1914)
The Carpenter (1920)
A Carpenters Lament (1890)
Chain Gang Song (1852)
The Ceaseless Weaver (1856)
The Cobbler's Blackbird (1867)
A Cockies Lament (1943)
The Cockie (1926)
The Cocky's Handy Man (1909)
The Cornish Miner (1871)
A Cornish Song For To-Night (1906)
Come All Ye That Are Weary (1855)
The Cricketer's Song (1860)
The Cry of The Toilers (1913)
A Digger's Lament (1919)
A Digger's Lament (1922)
The Digger's Song (1860)
Dignity of Labour (1929)
The Drover's Cook (1921)
Dream Droving (1963)
A Drover's Dream of Clancy in Heaven (1900)
A Drover's Song (1911)
A Droving Lay (1919)
A Droving Song (1930)
Dying in Exile (1869)
A Farm Hand's Lament (1912)
Frank the Poet
A Great Aboriginal Work (1915)
Hard Times Come Again No More (1908)
The Heights of Illawarra (1941)
A Hobo Retires (1939)
The Hobo's Eiderdown (1930)
A Love Song (1934)
The Mailman (1905)
The Labourer On Strike (1909)
A Miner's Lament (1910)
The Miner's Song (1893)
A Miner's Lament (2) (1910)
A Miner's Song (1906)
The Miner's (1893)
A Miner's Song (1906)
A Most Approved Address (1859)
A Navvy's Swan-Song (1915)
A New Chum's Lament (1874)
A New Irish Melody (1845)
A New Version of Ben Bolt (1855)
A Pioneer's Song (1901)
A Poor Old Hobo (1929)
A Pound A Mile (1905)
A Processional Hymn (1887)
A Publican's Lament (1916)
A Rabbiter's Lament (1930)
A Rebel's Song (1916)
A Returned Soldiers' Lament (1924)
A Sailor's Life (1913)
The Seaman's Life (1919)
The Seaman's Adieu (1833)
A Shearer's Dream (1895)
A Sewing Song (1914)
A Shearer's Song (1901)
A Shearing Song (1903)
A Shearer's Song (1902)
A Sister's Love (1881)
A Song For The Season (1863)
A Song for the Woolshed (1864)
A Song of The Surf Club (1939)
A Song In Exile (1910)
A Song of 1891 (1891)
A Song of the Axeman (1905)
Song of the Blacksmith (1874)
A Song of Empire (1911)
A Song of Erin (1901)
Song of The Irish Farmer (1868)
The Song of the Jackaroo (1884)
A Song of Judges (1919)
The Song of the Jumbuck (1934)
Song of Labor (1924)
Song of Labor (1934)
The Song of a Slave(1918)
A Song of the Stokers(1917)
A Spray of Shamrock (1909)
A Song of Summer Time (1939)
A Song for the Blacksmith (1886)
A Song of Summer time (1939)
A Squatter's Diary (1906)
A Stockman's Lament (1884)
A Street Ballad (1870)
A Strike Song (1917)
A Strike Song (1927)
A Swan River Melody Fly Not Yet(1836)
The Undertaker's Song(1896)
A Thousand Mile Away (1894)
A Topical Song (1893)
A Tram-Car Song (1905)
A Visit to the Gold Field (1870)
A Wallaby Song (1894)
A Wandering Digger's Lament (1860)
A War Song (1892)
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (1909)
A Wool-Shed Rhyme (1929)
A Wool Winder's Lament (1880)
A Woman's Song (1901)
Across the Western Plains (1905)
Across the Western Plains
After The Strike (1894)
After the Strike (1901)
The Aftermath (1927)
The Agitator (1909)
Alfred the Great on Erin (1898)
All in the House (1893)
All on the Russian Shore (1850s)
An Adventure With Morgan (1854)
An Ode (1878)
An Exile's Farewell (1898)
An An Irish Lullaby (1903)
At Lazy Harry's (1922)
The Auld Songs - An Exile's Song (1897)
The Big Night (1934)
An Irish Hill (1900)
An Ode To Peace" (1919)
An Old Irish "Come-All-Ye" (1825)
An Old-Time Champion Shearer (1915)
Another Fall of Rain (1878)
The Arctic Voyagers, Or Lady Franklin's
Lament For Her Husband
(1853)
At Waterloo (1900)
At the Diggings-After Work (1951)
Australian Folk Songs (1956)
Australian Navvies On The Line (1912)
The Australian Shepherd (1902)
Australia's on the Wallaby (1893)
Australia's on the Wallaby
A September Sail (1903)
A Woman Carpenter (1937)
Australian Hymn Of Freedom (1916)
The Babbling Brook (1932
"Bagman Joe." (1907)
The Bagman and the Mug (1900)
Ballad From the Battery (1906)
The Ballad of the Drover (1897)
Ballad of the Unemployed (1932)
The Ballad of Bob Marhoney
The Ballad of '33. (1933)
The Ballad of Brian Boru (1910)
The Ballad of 1891 (1950)
The Ballad of Gilbey's Pub (1954)
The Ballad of Michael Dwyer (1856)
Ballad of Norman Brown (1957)
Banjo (1932)
Banks of Claudie (1895)
Banks of the Condamine (1894)
Banks of the Condamine (1894)
[Horse-breaking version]
Banks of the Riverine (1894)
Bar Song (1894)
The Bare Belled Ewe (1891)
The Barcoo Publican (1898)
The Battle of the Lumpers (1919)
"Bellamy." (1892)
The Bell Ringer (1904)
Ben Bolt (1853)
Ben Hall - How He Died (1911)
Ben Hall
The Big Night (1934)
The Biggest Tally (1901)
Bill Jinks (1904)
Bill, the Bullock Driver (1876)
Billy Barlow in Australia (1843)
Billy Barlow in Cobar (1902)
Billy Barlow's Visit To Inglewood (1863)
"Bill Bowyang's" weekly column (1939)
Billy Byrne of Ballymanus (1798)
The Bitter Withy (1912)
The Blacksmith's Song (1881)
Black Velvet Band
Blow, Boys, Blow (1925)
Bloke in the Jacky Howe (1928)
The Blue Mountain Exile (1865)
Bluey Brink
The Bold Jack Donohoe (1903)
Bold Jack Donohue
Bold Tommy Payne (1953)
Bookers Run (1866)
The Border Town Railway (1875)
Botany Bay
Botany Bay 2
Bound For Darling Harbour (1956)
Bound for South Australia
The Boys of Ireland (1866)
Brace's Poling Pair (1898)
Brisbane Ladies (1879)
Broken-down Digger on Kiandra's Plain (1914)
Broken-down Squatter (1894)
The Broken-Hearted Shearer (1886)
The Brolga's Laugh (1894)
The Bulgandra Steeplechase (1931)
The Bullock Dray [original version] (1887)
The Bullock Driver (1874)
Bullockies Song
Bullockies' Ball
Bullocky Oh
The Bullocky's Lament (1935)
Bulls of the Speewah
The Builder's Song (1924)
The Bummer's Song (1902)
Bump me into Parliament
Bump me into Parliament (2)
The Burra Mine (1880)
The Bunyip (1945)
The Burra's Spud Digger's Spree
The Bushman's Home (1870)
The Bushman's Song (1870)
Bushranger Gilbert's Song
The Bushwhacker (1928)
Business Verse (1949)
The Button That He Wore
California (1850)
The Call of the North
The Camp Fire
The Cane Cutter (1914)
Cane Cutter's Lament
Canowindra (1902)
Catalpa
The Ceaseless Weaver (1856)
Strike by Chinese Shearers (1894)
China Speaks (1938)
The Click of the Shears
Click go the Shears (1891)
Click go the Shears (1939)
Click go the Shears (1939)
Click go the Shears (1946)
Clifton Miners' Song
The Cockatoo Digger (1898)
The Coal Miner (1950)
Cockies of Bungaree
Cockies of Bungaree 2
Cockies of Bungaree (1946)
The Cocky's Lament (1929)
Codfish Shanty
The Colliers' Strike Song (1885)
Colonial Courtship (1832)
Colonial Slanguage (1896)
Come All Ye Wild Young Cundle Lads (1900)
The Coming Battle (1908)
The Coming Victory (1891)
Convict Maid
The Convict's Dream (1852)
The Convict's Dream at Botany Bay
(1892)
The Convict's Fate,
or Crushed by Law
(1888)
Copper and May
The Corn Law Rhymes (1833)
The Cornish Miner (1871)
The Cotton Picker's Lament (1936)
Cradle Song Of The Sailor's Wife (1894)
Cricketers' Song (1864)
Cutting Cane (1926)
The Cutty Wren (1381)
Cyprus Brig
The Cyprus
Dalby Ram
The Darby Ram (1867)
Dandy Dick the Drover (1898)
The Daydawn of Labor
The Dear Native Girl
Defiance to Cold-Hearted Law(1828)
Dearest Lassie O ! (1836)
Death of Ned Kelly
The Death Feast
The Deep Sea Sailor's Lament (1905)
Demonstration Song (1882)
Dennis O'Reilly
The Derby Ram (1908)
The Digger's Lament (1922)
The Digger's Lament (1922)
The Digger's Lament (1927)
Devil May Care (1850)
The Diggers' Dirge
The Digger's Song (1860)
Do you think that I do not know?
Doing Time
Dosser Doyle
The Down And Out (1942)
Down Our Way (1939)
The Drover (1894)
The Drover (1929)
The Drover's Car (1929)
The Drover's Cook (1907)
The Drover's Dream (1872)
The Drover's Farewell to the Bush (1944)
The Drover's Dog (1932)
The Drover's Dog (1936)
The Drover's Lament For His Dog (1886)
The Drover's Dream
The Drover's Song (1950)
The Drover's Song (1940)
The Drover's Wife (1903)
Droving (1931)

The Droving Days (1934)
Droving Dreams (1917)
Dunn, Gilbert, and Ben Hall (1903)
Dunn Gilbert, and Ben Hall )(1903
Dunn, Gilbert, and Ben Hall (1911)
Dunn, Gilbert, and Ben Hall (1932)
Dying Fettler
The Dying Miner's Lament (1859)
Dying Stockman
The Dying Stockman (1882)
Eathlina's Lament (1825)
Eight Bells (1957)
Eight Hour Day (1905)
Eight-Hour Day--1915
Eight Hours Anniversary (1884)
Eight Hours' Day (1891)
The Eight Hours Song Or "Valentine" (1883)
The Eight Hours' Song (1884)
Eight Shillings a Week (1830s)
Election Song (1843)
Election Song (1921)
Election Time (1898)
Electors Vote For King (1870)
Electioneering Scene (1899)
The Emancipated Convict (1847)
The Emigrant's Song (1853)
Erin (1901)
Erin's Isle (1861)
Erin's Maidens Song (1836)
Euabalong Ball
The Evolution of the Shearer (1908)
Eugowra Rocks (1907)
Euroa V. Seymour (1879)
The Exile's Farewell (1846)
Exiled (1919)
Exile (1912)
The Exiled Highland Chieftain (1851)
The Exile's Song (1841)
The Exile's Song (1851)
The Exile's Song (1894)
The Exile of Erin on the Plains of Emu (1829)
The Exile's Farewell (1846)
The Evolution of the Shearer (1908)
The Exile's Farewell (1846)
The Exile's Song (1841)
The Exile of Erin on the Plains of Emu (1829)
The Exile's Song (1841)
The Exiled (1928)
The Factory Girls(1913)
Farewell to Greta
Farewell To Prison Walls (1893)
Farewell to Queensland (1943)
Farewell To The W.A. Gold Fields (1909
Faithless Sally Brown (1828)
Female Rambling Sailor
Female Transport
The Fenian Charter Song (1867)
Fenian Songs (1866)
The Fenians' Rescue
The Fine Old Queensland Squatter (1867)
The Fireman's Song (1900)
The First Swag (1925)
Five and a Zack
Five Miles from Gundagai(1945)
Flash Jack from Gundagai
The Flash Shearer (1906)
Flash Stockman
The Flood of Haunted Creek (1928)
The Folk I Knew "Out Back" (1924)
Folk Music From The States (1946)
Folk Song Revival (1956)
For the Fields (A Digger's Ballad)
For Erin (1906)
Four Little Johnny Cakes
Frank Gardiner
Frank the Poet (1884)
Forward is Our Watchword(1885)
Freedom on the Wallaby
Free Pete Seeger(1961)
From A Digger's Note Book (1859)
The Future "America" (1899)
The Gallows Tree
Garyowen Na Gloria (1893)
Girls of the Shamrock Shore
The Glendonbrook Road (1906)
God Save the People
Gorrianawa
Gosford Tribute in Verse (1934)
Great Northern Line
The Green Flag, By The Stars (1866)
The Green Linnet (1905)
Gumtree Canoe
The Gun Shearer (1953)
The Gundagai Calamity (1852)
The Guile Of Dad M'Ginnis (1898)
Hand Outs (1930)
Hame (1908)
Hang The Man Who Works) (1905
Hats Off ! The Jackaroo ! (1916)
The Happy Land (1892)
Haynau And The Southwark Brewers (1850)
Head-Stockman (1954)
Herring is King (1883)
Hey! Hey! The Iron Man! (1926)
The Heart of a Swaggie (1926)
Hiking Song (1932)
The Home of My Heart (1830)
The Hobo (1931)
The Hobo's Anthem (1929)
The Hobo's Song (1939)
Hold The Fort (1917)
The Homebush Races of 1848
The Horseman of the Shires (1923)
How I Took the Bait
Howls All Round (1882)
Humping Bluey(1897)
Humping Matilda(1923)
Humpy Hyde
Hurrah For The Diggings (1851)
Hurrah! for the Trial by Jury (1835)
Hurrah ! Home Rule, hurrah ! (1886)
The Hut Upon The Rise (1909)
The Huon River (1939)
I Don't Go Shearing Now (1895)
I Mun Be Gangin' Noo (1892)
I Didn't Raise My Son To Be A Soldier
I'm a Goat (1873)
I'm Going Back To Graft (189O)
I Realised I'd Got The Sack (1928)
I Sing of Garrawilla
Il Barbiere De Corio (1853)
The Immigrant Weaver (1842)
The Hungry Mile (1928)
The Immortal Dog (1922)
The Impatient Lassie (1828)
The Italian Labour Song (1894)
In The Shearing Shed (1907)
"In The Shade" (1910)
In Memoriam : W. T. Goodge (1909)
Inconvenient To Be Poor (1894)
Indicating Rock
Inglewood Cocky
Ireland and Napoleon Bonaparte (1897)
Irish Country Song (1912)
Jack the Ringer (1895)
James Raeburn's Farewell to Scotland (1880)
Jeames of Buckley Square - A Heligy (1850)
Joe Hill (1916)
Jim Connell Dies (1929)
Jim Jones at Botany Bay (1907)
Jimmy Shearer (1899)
Joe Hill (1916)
John Grumlie (1901)
John o' the Smithy (1895)
Johnny Boland
Jones's Ale (1912)
Jones's Ale
Josephine (1901)
Just Start The Billy Boiling, Lads (1899)
Kelly's Byrne and Hart
Kelly Gang
Ned Kelly's Song (1907)
King of the Shearers
The Kerry Hills (1901)
King Gold's Song (1898)
The Kings of the Shed
The Knitting Song (1915)
The Labor Boys (1899)
Lachlan Tigers
Lady Franklin's Lament For Her Husband
Lament on the Fate of Sir J. Franklin
and his Crews

Lambing Down (1894)
Lamb Shearing at Boree (1905)
Lance Skuthorpe (1909)
The Land and the People (1831-1883)
The Land for the Men Who Till It ! (1904)
The Human Slave (1917)
Land Army Song (1942)
The Land For The People (1893)
The Language of the Shearer-man
Lathered By Dough(1909)
The Lass of Yackandandah(1857)
The Lay of the Colonial Experience Man (1887)
The "Lay-Em-Out" Brigade (1936)
Last Week (1910)
The Lay of the Labourer (1845)
Lay of the Navvy
The Lay of the Queensland "Cockatoo." (1895)
The Lay of the Settler
Lazy Harry's
Les Darcy was a fighter (1917)
Let The Painter Go (1879)
The Leave Train (1938)
License Hunting To-Day (1894)
Lime Juice Tub
Lines On My Return To The Meroo (1861)
Lines To A Scottish Exile (1854)
The Lonely Shepherd's Song
Look Out Below
"Lou" - Charcoal Burnin' (1902)
Lousy Harry's [1900 Extract]
Love and Poverty (1900)
Lowlands Low (1882)
The Lumper (1912)
The Lure of The Bush (1931)
Maggie May
Machines (1908)
McGrady's Lament (1923)
Macquarie Harbour (1840)
The Mallee Farmer's Dirge (1901)
Mallee Song (1927)
Mallee Rain (1927)
The Man From Jugiong (1909)
The Man From Merriwa (1928)
The Man Hunt
The Man With The Shears
Maryborough Miner
The Mason (1898)
Mazlin's Mill
The Memory Of The Dead (1843)
There Are Men Dying in Ireland (1921)
Men of Austral--Sons of Toil
The Merry Days Long Gone
Merve Lilley Celebration (2012)
The Milkman's Lament (1914)
Miner
Miner Dan's Lament (1912)
The Miners' Song (1912)
The Miners' Song (1926)
Miners' Song (1939)
The Miners' Song (1936)
Moll Cutpurse (1952)
The Monster Diamond (1872)
Moonlight (1935)
The Moulder (1915)
Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay 2
The Mortgage Big (1895)
M.S.S. "LOST." (1936)
Murrumbidgee Shearer
The Musical Boundary Rider (1936)
Mustering Song
My Billy (1892)
My Life on You, Old Boy (1899)
My Flinders River Girl (1939)
My Mate Bill (1893)
My Little Dog And Me (1940)
My Own Green Isle (1868)
My Song Unsung (1903)
My Songs (1935)
My Swag and I (1906)
The Navvy (1889)
The Navvies' Lament (1918)
The Navvy (1903)
The Navvy (1911)
The Navvy (1927)
"Never Goes"
The New Chum's Lament (1871)
The New Chum's Lament (1874)
New Lost City Ramblers (1965)
The New Rush (1870)
Nine Miles from Gundagai
Nine Miles from Gundagai (1923)
Nine Miles from Gundagai (1931)
North To The Sheds (1901)
Not The Ole Sea Chantey (1937)
Not What it Is Cracked to be (1901)
Not yet the time (1954)
The Numerella
Nursery Rhyme
O'Connell the Brave ! (1835)
O'Connell Centenary Song (1875)
The Ode of the "Early Bird" (1879)
Ode in doleful minor (1894)
Ode to the Hen (1896)
Ode To A Bicycle (1935)
The Ode of the Octopus (1905)
Ode to The Rocky Meroo (1898)
Ode to the Tambo (1913)
Ode to the Yarra (1890)
Oh ! For The Isle That's Ever Green (1876)
Oh for the Scottish Winds (1899)
Off To The Diggings (1867)
Old Australian Ways(1930)
Old Bark Hut
The Old Bark Hut(1945)
One Tree Plain (1931)
On The Dole(1935)
The Outback Mailman(1938)
The Outlaw of Loch Lene(1908)
The Black Billy (1938)
Old Bullock Dray
Old Father William (1924)
The Old Friends (1904)
Old Keg of Rum
Old King Coal (1859)
The Old Men (1929)
Old Palmer Song
The Old Prospector's Reverie (1929)
The Poacher (1981)
Old Saws in Rhyme (1894)
On Taromeo
On The Banks of The Reedy Lagoon
On the Banks of the Riverine (1951)
On the Boundary (1903)
On the Dole (1932)
On The Far Barcoo (1925)
On the Road (1915)
On The Road To Coolgardie (1894)
On the Road to Ightham (1937)
On the Road to Jamberoo (1921)
On The Road To Toganmaine (1929)
On the Runs (1901)
On the Road With Liddy (1934)
On The Shores Of The Dardanelles (1915)
On The Wallaby (1887)
On Tramp (1926)
On Whose Back (1961)
Once I Was a Bushman Bold (1899)
One of the Has-beens
One Tree Plain(1931)
One of "the Have Beens" [original words]
"One of the Mob" (1927)
Only a Hobo (1937)
Onward Friends of Freedom (1896)
Our Cook (1906)
Our Heroes (1916)
Our Sea Of Sugarcane (1927)
Out and Make Way for the Fenian Men (1866)
Out Of The Land Of Bondage (1886)
Out Where The Shearer's Go (1898)
The Overlander [Original]
The Overlander(1944)
The Overlander
Paddies Evermore (1866)
The Patriot's Lament
The People's Anthem (1892)
The People's Petition (1848)
Perspective (1938)
Peters the "Gun." (1938)
The Phantom Shearer (1894)
Picking Peas (1930)
The Pit Pony (1916)
Plains of Emu (1829)
The Plaint Of The Stoker (1899)
The Player's Lament (1911)
The Poor Cotton Weavers (1815)
The Poor Exile from the Shamrock Shore (1903)
Pleasant Life of the Farmer's Boy (1910) (1910)
The Potato Digger's Song (1912)
Poor Ned Kelly
Poverty (1933)
Port Phllip Goes Folk (1968)
The Printer's Song (1842)
A Printer's Song (1879)
The Prospector (1906)
The Publican's Daughter (1856)
The Publicans War Song (1906)
The Prospector (1906)
The Queensland Border (1917)
The Queensland Cattle Drovers (1949)
Queensland Drover
Quick Go the Shares (1987)
The Rabbit Convention (1890)
The Rabbit-Buyer's Lament (1904)
The Rabbit Trapper (1917)
The Rabbit Trapper's Song (1902)

Railroad Song (1862)
The Ramble-Eer (1905)
The Rambling Soldier (1907)
The Ranter
The Rambling Road to Denihey's (1920)
The Rambling Soldier (1907)
The Ranter
The Rambling Road to Denihey's (1920)
The Ratcliffe Highway (1925)
The Rattler (1931)
Rebel Song (1913)
The Rebels' Song (1936)
Rebel Battle Songs (1917)
Reedy River
Reedy River Showing(1954)
Remember Broken Hill(1894)
Review of The Year
Repeal Nuts For A.B.C. to Crack(1848)
Ring The Bell Chumies (1874)
Ring The Bell Watchman (1869)
Robert Burns Anniversary (1820)
The Ringer Of The Shed (1891)
Roll the Cotton Down (1925)
Road to Omeo
The Road to Bangalow (1921)
The Rouse About (1946)
Roving and Hoping (1938)
Ryebuck Shearer
The Run On Fire (1860)
The Running of the Scrubbers (1934)
Sailor's Song (1908)
Salt Junk(1894)
Salvage: A Poem (1865)
Sandy Maranoa
The Sardine Box (1887)
Saturday Afternoon (1936)
Saving Our Folk Songs (1952)
The Saxon Shilling (1866)
Sea Shanty (1941)
The Seamstress (1891)
"Second class wait here" (1896)
Send Her Down Hughie (1953)
Send Them To Gaol (1864)
Sergeant Small
Shade and Light (1901)
Shearing (1952)
The Sheffield Grinder (1847)
The Shearer (1874)
The Shearers (1951)
The Shearers' Ball
The Shearer's Carnival (1880)
The Shearer's Defiance (1911)
The Shearers' Cook (1904)
The Shearers' Cook (1910)
The Shearer's Cook (1928)
The Shearers' Cook (1946)
Shearers' Cook (1946)
Shearers' Cook (1898)
Shearer's Dream
The Shearer's Farewell (1896)
The Shearer's Lament (1917)
The Shearer's Last Farewell (1899)
The Shearer's Song (1868)
The Shearers' Song (1871)
Shearers' Song (1900)
The Shearer's Song (1939)
The Shearer's Song (1939)
Shearers' Song and Chorus (1889)
The Shearer's Wife (1954)
Shearing (1870)
Shearing (1911)
The Shearing Ananias (1907)
Shearings Over (1907)
Shearing Song (1924)
The Shearing at Cuppacumbalong (1873)
Shearing at Castlereagh (1895)
Shearing At Wargundy (1944)
Shearing in the Bar
The Shearing of Murky Dan (1911)
Shearing Lambs
Shearing Long Ago 1924
Shearing Time (1899)
The Shearing Time (1909)
"Shellbacks" and "Pantiles" (1925)
The Shepherd and The Liberal Squatter (1880)
The Shepherd's Dream (1909)
The Shepherds Hut (1884)
The Shepherd's Lament(1846)
The Shepherd's Lament
The Shepherd's Song (1888)
The Shepherd's Song (1889)
Shickered (1912)
Shores of Botany Bay
Scottish Ballad (1852)
The School Girl's Song (1897)
The Shovel Fireman's Lament (1937)
The Shunter (1911)
Simple Facts For Young South Australians (1864)
Sing a Song of Cocky (1926)
Singapore (1942)
Sings Song About Soviet in Court (1942)
Slang ! (1940)
The Sleeper Cutters (1934)
The Sleeper Cutters Camp
Sleeper Cutters' Lament (1902)
Sleeping in The Valley Of Glenore (1910)
The Skite (1929)
Smaller (1942)
The Smithy (1924)
The Snagger (1928)
The Spirit of the 'Nineties (1940)
Sogarth Aroon (1876)
"Siren's Song" (1945)
The Soldier's Song (1917)
Song (1849)
Song--Eight Hours' Day (1891)
Song for the Luddites (1816)
The Song of the Lumpers (1888)
Song of the Miner (1900)
Song of The Politician (1912)
The Song of The Saw (1930)
A Song of Swans (1926)
Song of A Western Drover (1953)
Song of the Unemployed (1899)
Song of The Wheat (1933)
Song of the Workers (1918)
The Song of the A.S.C. (1918)
Song of the Baker (1860)
The Song of the Boss (1920)
Song of the "Billy" (1895)
Song of the Bridge (1907)
The Song of the Caman (1909)
The Song of the Cane (1864)
The Coal Owners' Song (1875)
Song of the Disappointed (1886)
Song of the Engineer (1907)
The Song of the Knife (1918)
Song of the Jarrah Jerker (1927)
Song of the Miners (1917)
Song of a Mt. Kembla Night Shift Mine (1922)
Song of The Mariners (1839)
Song of the Motors (1942)
The Song of The Pasty (1917)
Song of the Plough (1925)
The Song of the Plains (1907)
Song of The Politicians (1912)
The Song I Want to Sing (1927)
The Song of the Bullocky (1913)
Song of The Cane-Cutters (1906)
Song of The Captive (1871)
Song of the Carriers (1910)
The Song of the City-Stockman (1910)
Song of the Disinherited
Song of the Engine Driver (1981)
Song of the Engine Driver (1907)
Song of The Hempseed (1844)
The Song of the "Hobo" (1917)
The Song of the Lumpers (1888)
Song of the Ministry (1895)
Song of the Old Bushman (1922)
Song of the Pavement (1912)
Song of the Planes (1919)
Song of the Rebels (1916)
Song of the Reportee (1887)
Song of the Reporter (1892)
The Song of the Rollicking Rouseabout (1893)
The Song of the Rabbit (1913)
The Song of the Ringer (1923)
The Song of the Ringer (1893)
The Song of the River Man (1929)
The Song of the Shearer (1898)
The Song of the Shearers' Cook (1933)
The Song of the Shears (1891)
The Song of the Shears (1901)
Song of the Sheep (1889)
The Song of the Shingle-splitters (1874)
The Song of the Slave (1917)
The Song of the Songless Shearer (1922)
The Song of the Spade (1930)
Song of the Squatter (1864)
The Song of Stoker Lynch (1899)
Song of the Strike (1874)
The Song of the Striker (1892)
The Song of the Striker (1892)
The Song of the Swag (1883)
The Song of Tea (1929)
Song of the Taxes (1930)
The Song of the Trowel (1900)
Song of the Trusts (1908)
The Song of the Typhoid Germ (1894)
Song of The Weir (1939)
Song of the Western Drover (1930)
Song of the Wheat Lumpers (1930)
Song of the Wire (1875)
The Song of Victory (1954)
The Songs of Langsyne (1825)
Songs of an Exile.--No. 2.(1838)
Songs of an Exile.--No. 3.(1838)
Songs of an Exile.--No. 4.The Aboriginal Mother(1838)
Songs of an Exile.--No. 7.(1840)
Songs of an Exile.--No. 8.(1840)
The Spirit of the Bushmen (1891)
Spots Through the Ages (1936)
Spread the Truth (1891)
Springtime Brings on the Shearing (1865)
The Spud Digger (1913)
The Squatter's Defeat
The Squatters' Dirge (1883)
The Squatter's Lament (1859)
The Squatter's Prayer (1901)
Squatting Song (1839)
To Irish Exiles (1921)
To The Workmen of The Land (1864)
S.S. Agnes Irving (1927)
Stand Firm ! (1913)
Stand Together, Men, As Brothers (1891)
"Starboard" (1887)
Station Cook (1940)
Steam (1905)
Stick To The Union (1889)
Stick to the Union, Boys (1901)
Stick to the Union, Lads (1898)
Stinking Fish(1898)
The Stockman (1894)
The Stockman (1895)
The Stockman (1907)
Stockrider's Song (1946)
The Stringy-bark Cockatoo (1924)
Stringybark Creek (1880 / 1953)
The Stringy-Bark Tree (1928)
The "Strikers" Jig (1921)
Striking Matilda (1969)
Strike of Chinese shearers (1894)
Stirling O
Stonebreaking (1924)
Streets of Forbes (1911)
Struggle in the West
Success to the Union (1896)
Subsidy Pie (1943)
Sundowner's Lament (1938)
Surfing Song (1923)
Surf Song (1926)
The Swagman (1915)
The Swagman's Prayer (1932)
Swagman's Sentiments (1939)
The Swaggy's Lament
The Swagman's Song
The Swagsman (1888)
Swansong of The Drover (1956)
Thoughts of a Shearer (1923)
Sydney Bob The Shearer (1988)
The Undertaker's Song (1881)
Tally ho ! the hounds, sirs (1851)
Thanksgiving Song (1892)
They Don't Want Shearers Now (1902)
The Teamster's Song (1848)
There Are Men Dying in Ireland (1921)
They'll Kick You When You're Down (1892)
Thoughts (1953)
Three and Six a Day (1889)
Through the Stomach and the Back (1891)
To All Free Labourers! (1891)
To An Engine Driver (1840)
To The Victorian Shearer
The Workers' Song of the Springtide(1930)
To William Cobbett (1830)
Toilers of the Nations
The Toilers' Trinity (1898)
The (W)Ringer Song (1952)
Tomahawking Fred
The Tomyhawker (1923)
Track Mates (1923)
The Tram (1908)
The Train Song (1910)
Trampin' (1915)
The Transport
Travelling Down the Castlereagh
Treading Out The Corn (1923)
Trees ! (1939)
Tricky Poacher(1902)
Trip To The Tin Mines (1876)
The Troubadour (1925)
The Troubles of the Drover (1879)
Trawler Songs Namesakes (1916)
The Turon Goldfields (1938)
Turning the Tables (1894)
Tweed and Lismore
Twelve Ounces To The Ton (1889)
The Unemployed (1896)
The Union (1843)
Union Boy
Unite ! Unite ! (1890)
United We Stand -- Divided We Fall (1891)
Unsweetened (1923)
Up Anchor (1872)
Us, the Hoboes (1923)
Valedictory Song
The Valley of the Boyne (1840)
Van Diemen's Land (1916)
Van Dieman's Land
Van Diemen's Land (1948)
The Veteran Shearer, Strafed(1926)
The Vision Of Merungle (1935)
The Visions of a Night Watch
Vote Labor (1939)
Wallabi Joe (1894)
Wallaby Brigade
Wallaby Stew
Waltzing Matilda
Waltzing O'Reilly (1983)
The Wanderer Departed
War, What For? (1927)
The Warren Railway (1909)
Water in the Bore (1892)
The Waterwitch
The Wattle Blossoms Bloom (1905)
Wayback Bill's Deception (1922)
"The Westerners' Lament" (1937)
The Western Shearer (1909) (1909)
The Working Girl's Song (1909)
We Bushmen Know (1896)
We Will Be Free (1834)
We Still Are Loyal Unionists (1891)
Wee One
The Wearin' o' The Badge (1912)
The Western Overland (1896)
The Whaler's Song (1834) (1834)
What Cornish lads can do (1904)
When Erin First Rose (1865)
When Dad Comes Out Of Gaol
When The Cockie's Shearing's On
When The Kye Come Hame (1902)
When They All Refuse To Cheer (1894)
When Your Back's Against the Wall (1939)
Where I Grew To Be a Man (1960)
Where The Brumbies Come To Water (1895)
Which Way Out (1931)
Who is immortal ? (1903)
Who Are The Anarchists ? (1891)
Widgegoweera Joe
Wild Colonial Boy
Wild Colonial Boy 2
Wild Colonial Boy (Play) (1956)
Wild Rover
Whisky Johnny (1925)
The Wild Walcha Boy (1906)
With My Swag Upon My Shoulder
Women's No-Conscription Song
Women's Song of Triumph (1903)
Woolshed Song (1923)
Women Made Famous By Songs (1905)
Wooyeo Ball (1889)
The Workman's Goal (1911)
The Working Girl's Song (1909)
Work, Recreation, Rest (1906)
The Worker (1876)
The Worker's Dream (1919)
The Worker's Dream (1923)
Workers ! Unite (1923)
Wreck of the Dandenong
The (W)Ringer's Song(1952)
Yabtree Shearing (1904)
Ye Poor Of Wealthy England (1896)
Your Tool Box Will Be Raffled By-And-Bye (1899)

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australian traditional songs . . . a selection by mark gregory