G'day yet again Betsy & Barrie ...

I ought to check these obscure sources more carefully:

Singabout — Selected Reprints, Edited by Bob Bolton, Bush Music Club Sydney, 1985, p. 40.

The Shearer's Dream
Wrords: Henry Lawson      Tune: Traditional

Collected by John Meredith from the singing of Charles Ayger, aged 80 (May 1958 ... ?) of Glebe, a suburb of Sydney.

The collected tune is, indeed, bright and breezy ... a close relative of that of Widgeegoweera Joe, which has been discussed her recently (and is in the DigiTrad ... but without tune!). Im expecting a bunch of musicians any moment ... but I'll try to post the tune (and Charles Ayger's words) later tonight ...

Regards,

Bob