This is a revisit to a song that I posted on 08 September last year from a CD by O'Leary and Hildebrand. I have since come across a YT clip of a version sung by Alan Musgrove that has 2 extra verses. His introductory remarks set the scene. Here is my transcription - corrections welcomed. THE PUSH ON THE CORNER (Unknown) Last night I was driven near crazy By one I both love and adore Now she's packed up all her boxes And I ain't gonna see her no more I wrote her a hundred letters Begging her to forget But now she's found one she loves better And this is the answer I get Chorus: Just wait till the push on the corner Refuses to drink a long beer Wait till the thieves and pickpockets From the streets of Fitzroy disappear Wait till the Collingwood lassies From powder and paint they are free When the Chinese are coppers on Bourke Street My darling I'll come back to thee Chorus So I went to her mother’s in Gore Street To find out if she would come back But she said she was down at the Napier With a swell from Kew name of Jack I went down and there I did find her In the ladies’ lounge sipping her drink I said, ‘Will you come back, my darling?’ She answered, ‘Well, what do you think?’ Chorus So I chased up a couple of bottles To fill my poor heart with some cheer I went back to my room in the Narrows And drunk that foaming brown beer Then later I went out a-walking Up Gertrude Street I did stray But as a tram rattled on by me I thought I could hear people say Chorus Youtube clip --Stewie.
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