Published in the Queensland Boomerang in 1891, this was composed by Saul Mendelsohn (1844 - 1897) a shopkeeper from Nanango, Queensland to the tune of the older sea shanty “Spanish Ladies” . Also known as “The Drover” and “Augathella Station”
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lyrics
Brisbane Ladies
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[ V.1 ]
Farewell and adieu to you, Brisbane ladies
Farewell and adieu, you maids of Toowong
We've sold all our cattle and it’s northwards we’ll travel
But we hope we shall see you again before long.
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[ V.2 ]
The first camp we make, will be down by the river
We’ll off with our swags, and lay the place flat
We'll bed down the herd and before the sun rises
We’ll move them again, and we’ll cross the Blackbutt.
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[ CHORUS ]
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Queensland drovers
Rant and we'll roar as onward we push
Until we return to the Augathella station
It's flamin' dry goin' through the old Queensland bush. ……………..
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[ V.3]
Then on to Taromeo and Yarraman Creek, lads,
It's there we shall make our next camp for the day
Where the water and grass are both plenty and sweet, lads
And maybe we'll butcher a fat little stray
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[ V.4 ]
Then on to Nanango, that hard-bitten township
Where the out-of-work station-hands sit in the dust,
Where the shearers get shorn by old Tim, the contractor
Well I wouldn't go near there, but I flaming well must !
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[ CHORUS ]
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[ V.5 ]
The girls of Toomancie, they look so entrancing
Like bawling young heifers they're out for their fun
With the waltz and the polka and all kinds of dancing
To the rackety old banjo of Bob Anderson ……………..
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[ V.6 ]
Then fill up your glasses, and drink to the lasses,
We'll drink this town dry, then farewell them all
And when we return to the Augathella Station,
We hope you'll come by there and pay us a call.
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[ CHORUS ]
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credits
from Drovers, Stockmen and Bullockies,
track released November 7, 2023
Words by Saul Mendelsohn
Tune : "Spanish Ladies"
Cello by Natasha Jaffe.
The Queensland Tiger covers traditional Australian ballads mainly from 19C.: e.g. Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Breaker
Morant, Charles Thatcher, etc…. true to the original works.
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