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Thread #73219   Message #1268018
Posted By: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca
09-Sep-04 - 07:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Jackie Howe the Warrick Gun
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jackie Howe the Warrick Gun
Didn't get the second page:


Its hind leg, then the top knot
The neck is opened wide
Now he drops it on the long blow
Just watch those B-Bows glide
Down he comes on the whipping side
There's the fleece, it's done
And it's "Wool Away" shouts Jacky Howe
For he's the Warwick Gun
CHORUS
 

When the squatters tried to smash the shearers
In 1891
In the forefront of the unions
Jacky Howe, the Warwick Gun
They simply sought a decent rate
To shear the squatter's sheep
But for far too long the rage was strong
And enmities ran deep
But Jacky Howe's remembered
 

Not for politics, but speed
And throughout Australia's shearing sheds
They talk of one great deed
On 10 October '92
His tally, Three Two One
And ever since they've called him
Jacky Howe, the Warwick Gun
CHORUS