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Thread #90356   Message #1712983
Posted By: Little Robyn
08-Apr-06 - 12:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Wool Commandeer (G Meek, F Fyfe)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WOOL COMMANDEER (G Meek, F Fyfe)
OK, here are the words as given on Graham Wilson's 1982 Cityfolk recording 'Billy on the Boil'
I believe Graham lives in Aus nowadays but I'm not sure if he's still singing in public.

The Wool Commandeer

Words:George Meek            Music:Frank Fyfe

Chorus:
It's come from Haka Valley and it's come from Sunny Peak,
It's come from up the river and down Waitaki Creek;
It's come from the back of nowhere up the wild McKenzie way,
And a clip from Tipperary will get here any day.

The commandeer is underway and blimey, what a fuss!
The blinking din and clatter sure would make a parson cuss;
There's covees tearing up the floors and blokes in overalls
Slap-dapping cans of whitewash on the rafters and the walls.

There's stackers swinging balehooks and there's barrows shifting wool,
There's covees lumping baskets, some half empty, some half full;
There's classers squealing loudly for more bales of wool to class,
And someone yelling "Where do you want this wool from Dansey's Pass?"

There's wool on every siding and there's wool on every street,
There's wool on every lorry and every bus you meet;
There's wool on every trailer and there's wool on every train
And the stock-and-station diggers have got it on the brain.

There's wool on every corner and there's wool on every floor;
There's wool in every basement and jammed behind the door;
There's wool in the old dairy and there's wool down at the dump,
There's wool in the old freezer and still more bales to hump.

There's shaggy bales and baggy bales, there's fadges, sacks and bags,
Thank heavens Wally Nash cut out the blinking, stinking dags;
There's belly wool and smelly wool and wool, spare me days,
The old jumbuck that grew it I'll swear's seen better days.

(Walter Nash was Prime Minister for NZ and our MP for the Hutt Valley when I was a kid (late 50s).
Robyn