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Thread #5232 Message #1166899
Posted By: Bob Bolton
21-Apr-04 - 05:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Calico Printer's Clerk
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Calico Printer's Clerk
G'day again,
I now remember that the Australian song, obviously using this same tune was called Carrotty Kate - a tale of a faithless barmaid of that name - and a horse riding proclivity ... and it has the chorus:
She was very fond of riding, as you can plainly see
For one fine day she rode away, with a chap from the Native Bee.
This has to be a parody, roughly contemporary with the Australian popularity of The Calico Printer's Clerk ... it appears in Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing's expanded version of 'Banjo' Paterson's 1905/1912 book Old Bush Songs - and is gleaned from "Bill Bowyang's" Australian Bush Recitations.
With any luck (and some perserverance) I should be able to scan it in ... after tonight's Committee Meeting ... maybe ...
Regards,
Bob Bolton