G'day Joe,

Bush Girl, with the tune was first published in the Bush Music Clubs booklet "Songs fron Lawson" about 1959. We still have some copies of the 1970s reprint ... for A$1!

More comprehensively, this would be one of some 200 tune to about 100 of Henry's poems in Chris Kempster's 1980s book "Songs of Henry Lawson". I can look up the full words and write an ABC/MIDItext file of the tune for you. There may well be other tunes than the one that did a lot of courting for BMC members in the 1960s/70s ... Priscilla Herdman (Canada?) has set a lot of Lawson lyrics but I will check Chris's book.

I have to say that it was a reasonably comprehensive selection of the best settings around at the time, since I collaborated with Chris on several aspects of the book which, unfortunately, is currently out of print.

Regards,

Bob Bolton