G'day again,

Joe Offer: Thanks for the advice (in the original 'Stewie is the Man' thread) on just adding "ADD" to get a song 'harvested' ... but this thread illustrates the other advantage to opening a separate "Lyr Add" thread - all the erudite discussion it engenders from fellow Mudcatters!

I was sure that this song was not original to Bob Dyer, but the credits from the National Library CD don't give an author. Malcolm Douglas's information is the sort of thing I expected. Bob Dyer came from a pretty good hillbilly pedigree ... poor white sharefarmer family with a team of mules, a wagon ... and just enough crop of maize to keep a corn likker still in business.

As I said above, he would have been a fairly commonplace performer back home ... and he completely puzzled the English when he went there, after his success with the Marcus show in Australia during 1937 ... but he fitted into Australia very well - and went on to prove himself an astute businessman and showbusiness practioner. (Beating performance out of mules ... and dealing in illicit alcohol ... were probably excellent traing for a career in show business!)

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton