Lyr Req: Australia

Subject: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 11:06 AM

Does anyone have the lyrics to Australia as sung by Uffa Fox and more recently by John Kirkpatrick. Not South Australia


I have just realised that Andy is signed in on my laptop and I can't be arsed to change it!!

Jillie aka Eye Lander.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Reinhard
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 02:08 PM

Do you mean the transportation ballad Australia as sung by Bob Hart and Cyril Poacher? But I can't find it in my John Kirkpatrick discography; at least not with this title. On Song Links his sings the transportation ballad The Convict's Lamentation, though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 03:29 PM

Uffa Fox's CD is available from his web Site ! Here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 06:30 PM

Might be this one Jilly. Originally about transportation to Virginia, but subsequently updated when Australia became the destination.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 07:07 PM

Jillie, do you remember a few lines or phrases from the song? Titles can be confusing, but a few lines or phrases would help us know we've found the right song.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 07:44 PM

Uffa Fox recorded a CD of Nautical Songs so that Deportation Song doesnt seem like good fit Snuffy !

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 10:46 AM

Jillie Here again.

Andy has the LP (those flat black things) and has tranfered it to cd but there are one or 2 words thatI can't get.

Reinhard: I think John Kirkpatrick is putting on his next cd, he sang it at concert on the IOW a couple of weeks ago.

It starts:
Heave away, and don't you make a noise for we're bound for Australia

Australia me lads is a mighty fine place, Heave away, Heave away,
And to go there me lads is a ……………….

Heave a away my bonny bonny boys Heave away, Heave away,
Heave away, and don't you make a noise for we're bound for Australia
Heave a away my bonny bonny boys Heave away, Heave away,
Heave away, and don't you make a noise for we're bound for Australia


Mid rain and hail and wind and snow Heave away, Heave away,
                                        For ……..must go we're bound for Australia

Heave a away my bonny bonny boys Heave away, Heave away,
Heave away, and don't you make a noise for we're bound for Australia
Heave a away my bonny bonny boys Heave away, Heave away,
Heave away, and don't you make a noise for we're bound for Australia

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Acorn4
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 11:25 AM

There was the Spike Milligan one which ran something like:-

We think of you each morning
And in the evening too,
We even wake up at midnight
So that we can think of you
Australia....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Reinhard
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 12:03 PM

Jillie, that is definitely not the transportation Ballad I mentioned above. I'm looking forward to John K.'s next CD and hope it will be on it.

I did a Google search for a few phrases of your lyrics and found this verse in Maurice R. Cloughley: A World to the West, leading into Chapter XIV, The Coral Coast:

Australia, me lads, is a mighty fine place
Heave away, heave away,
And to go there me lads is no disgrace
We're bound for Australia

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Australia
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 03:52 PM

Cheers Reinhard, I only hope it is on his next cd, but I am sure he said it would be.

Jillie on Miskin Man's cookie!