G'day Joe and Joybell,

By my recollection, this has been around since at least as far back as the late '50s ... Chad Morgan (The Sheik of Scrubby Creek) has been a pretty durable performer on the Australian scene, with his good-natured parodies of the country music scene (or himself .. ?). I'll have a look at some specific sites for Australian recorded lyrics and see if I can fix that date.

Regards,

Bob