My Grandad has a different version he recites snatches of when drinking... " Whats the point in talking/when you're stony broke and walking/when your tucker bag is empty/and your water bag is dry......he swung an axe at the mighty blacks/what more could a bastard do/he'd been in every brothel from Bendigo to Cue..." It seems that there may be several different regional differences in this ballad. I imagine it came through an oral tradition and changed along the way. : )