Historical information

Songs of Australian heritage for voice. Melody line only with chord symbols. Includes guitar tablature for chords.

Convicts, transportation and sea shanties. Pioneering, goldrush days and bushrangers. Shearers, drovers and bush life. Swagmen, Victorian expansion, sporting life and disasters.

Contents:
• According to the Act
• The Albury ram
• Another fall of rain
• Australia's on the Wallaby
• The bald-headed end of the broom
• The ballad of Ben Hall
• The ballad of the Kelly Gang
• The banks of the Condamine
• The big-gun shearer
• The black velvet band
• The blackboys Waltzing Matilda
• Bluey Brink
• Bold Jack Donohue
• Bound for Botany Bay
• Brisbane ladies
• Cain killed Abel
• The cane-cutter's lament
• The carrier's song
• The Catalpa
• Charlie Mopps
• Click go the shears
• The cockies of Bungaree
• Colonial experience
• Coming down the flat
• The convict maid
• The currency lasses
• The death of Alec Robertson
• The death of Ben Hall
• The death of Willie Stone
• Denis O'Reilly
• The drover's dream
• The dying aviator
• The dying stockman
• Eight little cylinders
• The Eldorado mining disaster
• The exile of Erin
• Farewell to Greta
• Flash Jack from Gundagai
• The flash stockman
• Frank Gardiner
• The freehold on the plain
• The gaol song
• The girls of the Shamrock Shores
• The golden gullies of the Palmer
• The gumtree canoe
• The Hamfat man
• Heenan and Sayers
• Henry's downfall
• Here's adieu to all judges and juries
• I've been to Australia, Oh
• Jim Jones at Botany Bay
• Jog along til shearing
• John Kanaka
• The Lachlan Tigers
• Leave her, jollies, leave her
• Les Darcy
• The limejuice tub
• Look out below
• Maggie May
• Maids of Australia
• Man of the Earth
• The Maryborough miner
• Moreton Bay
• The morning of the fray
• Morrisey and the Russian sailor
• Musselman
• The mustering song
• My name is Edward Kelly
• Nails
• The new chum Chinaman
• Nine miles from Gundagai
• The nose on my old man
• Oh, give me a hut
• The old bark hut
• The old bullock dray
• One of the has-beens
• The overlanders
• Pint Pot and Billy
• Pity poor labourers
• Radcliffe Highway
• The rigs of the time
• Rolling home
• The Ryebuck shearer
• Sam Holt
• Sign-on day
• Sixteen thousand miles from home
• South Australia
• The springtime it brings on the shearing
• The stockman's last bed
• The Sunshine Railway disaster
• Tambaroora Ted
• The tattooed lady
• Ten thousand miles away
• The tent poles are rotten
• Travelling down the Castlereagh
• Tumba-bloody-Rumba
• The two professional hums
• Van Diemen's Land
• The wallaby brigade
• When we get our tuppence back
• The wild colonial boy
• Woolloomooloo

Significance

Australian culture, folklore and history in songs.

Physical description

Paper; paperback book.

Front cover: multicoloured background; picture of swaggy with guitar; picture of Eureka flag; black and green lettering.


Back cover: red, orange and white background; Eureka flag; picture of a shearer with sheep; picture of a person in Ned Kelly armour playing a guitar on a horse; picture of woman facing the Ned Kelly figure; brand with the message "unsurpassed Australian made".

Inscriptions & markings

Front cover: author's name and title.

Back cover: author bio; praise from Jack Pobar, swagman.