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Thread #172725   Message #4182551
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
27-Sep-23 - 10:09 AM
Thread Name: Seeking songs on sheep, wool etc...
Subject: RE: Seeking songs on sheep, wool etc...
my friends Jason & Chloe Roweth released a CD - Too many bloody songs about Shearers a few years back! Check out the earliest published version of click Goes the shears - the shearer finally goes to HEAVEN, but some wowser sent him to hell & everyone sings that version these days, tho I try to get the proper word accepted, but I have such a soft voice ...

The title comes from a comment by the father of an early member of the Bush Music Club, Australia's oldest folk club, which is turning 70 next year. When his son came home with YET ANOTHER song about shearers, father made the above comment, so son suggested he write a song about another topic. Father was not a writer, yet he wrote a verse which his songwriting son made into a song - The Peach Pickers Song - see page 3