Actually Banjo Pattersons song 'Riding Down The Castlereagh '

I answered a call for shearing once, along the Marthaguy,
We shear non union hear says he, I'd call that scab says I,
I looked along the shearing shed before I turned to go,
There forty bloody Chinamen a shearing in a row.


So it's shift boys shift there isn't the slightest doubt,
It's time to make a move with the leprosy about,
So I saddled up me pony and whistled on me dog,
We made for up the country at the old jig jog.

this is a reference to chinese shears working for a lot less pay than the Aussies, racial predjudice is nowt new.

Dave H