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Thread #4241   Message #731321
Posted By: Hrothgar
17-Jun-02 - 06:02 AM
Thread Name: Australian/American songs: similarities
Subject: RE: Australian/American songs: similarities
"The Wallaby Brigade" is to the tune of "Tramp Tramp! Tramp!" - subtitled "The Prisoner's Hope."

There's a song by (American) Ed Clifford called "Billy Barlow" but I can't read music, and I've never heard it sung, so i don't know how it compares to the Australian "Billy Barlow" (by Bnjamin Griffin???). The structure of the words reads as fairly similar.

There is a lovely Autralian song to Foster's "Gentle Annie," using the same title. I think the Australian version comes form somewhere down in Victoria, but I wouldn't hold that against it.