Joy Durst - dots here

6 - BULLOCKY-O

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1. I draw for Speckle's Mill, bullocky-o, bullocky-o,
And it's many a log I drew, bullocky-o.
I draw cedar, beech and pine, and I never get on the wine;
I'm the king of bullock drivers, don't you know, bullocky-o!

2. There's Guinea and Anderson too, bullocky-o, bullocky-o!
And it's many a log they drew, bullocky-o.
I can give them a thousand feet, axe 'em square and never cheat;
I'm the king of bullock drivers, don't you know, bullocky-o!

3. There's Wapples, too: he brags, bullocky-o, bullocky-o,
Of his forty raw-boned stags, bullocky-o.
I can tell you it's no slander when I say I raise their dander,
When they hear the crack of me whip, bullocky-o, bullocky-o!

Repeat 1st verse.

folkstream - dots & history - Collected from Cyril Duncan, Nerang by the Queensland Folklore Society. Published in the Queensland Centenary Pocket Songbook. Cyril Duncan reported that the song was written by his grandfather an early settler on the Nerang river.