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GUEST,alinact Lyr Req: Australian Through and Through (E Bogle) (17) RE: Australian through and through (Bogle) 02 Apr 03


You can find the song in the songbook "Contemporary Australian Folksongs - The Song Goes On", edited by Lynne Tracey (Wise Publications, copyright 1986).

Tony Miles writes a note to the song:

"When I arrived from England 15 years ago, Australians on the whole seemed to have an inferiority complex. But now Australia leads the world in micro-surgery, competes with the best in sports and through it all there is a new national pride and sense of identity. Or is there? Are we too eager to be accepted into the mainstream of international culture, at the expense of what is truly Australian?"

(There's something for you to comment on, Bob Bolton).

Allan

Chords are:

Now I've (C)never been a shearer, never (F)seen a shearing shed
And I (C)don't suppose I'd recognise a (G7)sheep
I've (C)never been a drover bringing (F)dusty cattle over
or (D7)died of thirst beside a dried up (G7)creek
I've (F)never been a digger on a worked out worthless claim
A (E)rowdy rouse a - (E7)-bout or jackar -(Am)-oo (G7)
Never (C)drove a bullock train never (F)cut a field of cane,
But I'm (C)bloody well Aust- (G7)-ralian through and (C)through,
my oath (D7)I am!
I'm (F)bloody well Aust - (G7)-ralian through and (C)through.


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