The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84019   Message #1548224
Posted By: Celtaddict
23-Aug-05 - 10:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Advice to a Young Swagman (Duke Tritton)
Subject: Lyr Req: 'stony broke and walking' (AU)
I am looking for what may be a fragment of an Australian bush poem. The family of a friend, for at least the last three generations, when drinking, raises the pint, intones "When you're stony broke and walking, and no bastard there is talking, and the billy's getting low..." then they drink. I understand Bob Bolton is trying to track down a similar quote, used as a toast, that does include the line "stony broke and walking" (though in his the tucker bag is empty). It may be these are variations/corruptions of the same bit, or two verses of a longer poem. Does this ring a bell with anyone?