Poetry & Great Verse
The old bush songs
The Old Bush Songs preserves the ballads and songs associated with the Australian bush, especially the rough, mobile world of drovers, shearers, stockmen, travellers, and settlers. A
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Books by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson
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Waltzing matilda
Waltzing Matilda is one of Australia’s best-known cultural songs, built around the story of a travelling swagman who camps beside a billabong and steals a sheep. When the authorities arrive, the swagman chooses death rather than capture, and his spirit is imagined as continuing to haunt the
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