One of the Has-beens
I'm one of the has beens a shearer I mean
I once
was a ringer and I used to shear clean
I could make the wool roll off like
the soil from the plough
But you may not believe me for I cant do it now
Chorus
I'm as awkward as a new chum and I'm used to the frown
That
the boss often shows me saying keep them blades down
I've shore with
Pat Hogan, Bill Bright and Jack Gunn
Tommy Leighton Charlie Fergus and the
great roaring Dunn
They brought from the Lachlan the best they could find
But not one among them could leave me behind
It's no use complaining
I'll never say die
Though the days of fast shearing for me have gone by
I'll take the world easy shear slowly and clean
And I merely have told you
just what I have been
Notes
Printed in Stewart and Keesing Old Bush Songs with the note: "From Mrs G.L.Ginns, of Merrylands, NSW". (Written by Robert Stewart) From the singing of A.L.Lloyd, who writes on the notes for Across the Western Plains that he heard it in Cowra, NSW when he was working there in the 1920's. Tune 'Pretty Polly Perkins'