Subject: Bastard from the bush From: mcpiper Date: 12 Nov 00 - 04:34 AM Hi to all. I know that it is not a song, but I would like to finds the words to this poem. I realise that it is fairly bawdy, so just links, or even the words to my personal pages would help. Thanks, mcpiper. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bastard from the bush From: John in Brisbane Date: 12 Nov 00 - 07:04 PM Hi McPiper, your basic request is not a hard one but I personally can't help you at this time. The standard version as I know it was written by Henry Lawson as I recall and has been published in a number of his anthologies. I'm sure that a resourceful Mudcatter can cough this up fairly easily.
About 1972 at the National Folk Festival in Melbourne I heard a somewhat embellished version with language a mite more colourful. The name that comes to mind was 'Mossy'. I'm sure that someone like Bob Bolton would have access to the X rated version.
Regards, John |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bastard from the bush From: Bob Bolton Date: 12 Nov 00 - 09:16 PM G'day Mcpiper, OK, so John is right. I can scan in the words from Brad Tate's collection of Australian Bawdry ... of the same name - when I get back from tonight's Monday Night Session. There are a few variants of this, but I think Brad's is the most (il)legitimate. Perhaps I had best PM it to you ... I'll see what it looks like on screen. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bastard from the bush From: Bugsy Date: 12 Nov 00 - 09:23 PM Bob, please PM it to me as well.
Cheers
Bugsy |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE CAPTAIN OF THE PUSH (Lawson) From: Bob Bolton Date: 13 Nov 00 - 02:48 AM G'day again, I'll start by upholding poor old Henry's honour and posting the clean version - his 1892 poem The Captain of the Push. He is believed to have written the much morte pungent version for private circiulation. I will PM a copy to mcpiper, Bugsy and John. BTW: mcpiper, strictly speaking, it IS a song. There is one tune for THE CAPTAIN OF THE PUSH in Chris Kempster's book The Songs of Henry Lawson - not one I am familiar with but it looks an appropriately gloomy tune, in Em. I will try it out ... and MAY end up posting it. Regards, Bob Bolton
The Captain of the Push
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bastard from the bush From: mcpiper Date: 13 Nov 00 - 04:21 AM Thanks heaps Bob, I've just read the version on my PM, thats the bugger. I suppose some people may be shocked or offended by verse or songs such as this, but I find them screamingly funny in the right company. Over the years I have worked with quite a few Aussies who knew the odd line, but to have the full version is just the ducks guts, as they say. Many thanks, all power to the Mudcat community. mcpiper |
Subject: Lyr Req: THE BASTARD FROM THE BUSH (Australian) From: Jim Dixon Date: 24 Sep 09 - 08:57 AM From The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse by Les A. Murray (Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), page 83: THE BASTARD FROM THE BUSH Anonymous (Attributed in part to Henry Lawson) As night was falling slowly on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley came the Captain of the Push, And his whistle, loud and piercing, woke the echoes of the Rocks, And a dozen ghouls came slouching round the corners of the blocks. Then the Captain jerked a finger at a stranger by the kerb, Whom he qualified politely with an adjective and verb. Then he made the introduction: 'Here's a covey from the bush; Fuck me blind, he wants to join us, be a member of the Push!' Then the stranger made this answer to the Captain of the Push: 'Why, fuck me dead, I'm Foreskin Fred, the Bastard from the Bush! I've been in every two-up school from Darwin to the Loo; I've ridden colts and blackgins; what more can a bugger do?' 'Are you game to break a window?' said the Captain of the Push. 'I'd knock a fucking house down!' said the Bastard from the Bush. 'Would you out a man and rob him?' said the Captain of the Push. 'I'd knock him down and fuck him!' said the Bastard from the Bush. 'Would you dong a bloody copper if you caught the cunt alone? Would you stoush a swell or Chinkie, split his garret with a stone? Would you have a moll to keep you; would you swear off work for good?' Said the Bastard: 'My colonial silver-mounted oath I would! 'Would you care to have a gasper?' said the Captain of the Push. 'I'll take that bloody packet! said the Bastard from the Bush. Then the Pushites all took council, saying, 'Fuck me, but he's game! Let's make him our star basher; he'll live up to his name.' So they took him to their hideout, that Bastard from the Bush, And granted him all privileges appertaining to the Push. But soon they found his little ways were more than they could stand, And finally their Captain addressed the members of his band: 'Now listen here, you buggers, we've caught a fucking Tartar. At every kind of bludging, that Bastard is a starter. At poker and at two-up he's shook our fucking rolls; He swipes our fucking likker and he robs our bloody molls!' So down in Jones's Alley all the members of the Push Laid a dark and dirty ambush for that Bastard from the Bush. But against the wall of Riley's pub the Bastard made a stand, A nasty grin upon his dial; a bike-chain in each hand. They sprang upon him in a bunch, but one by one they fell, With crack of bone, unearthly groan and agonising yell, Till the sorely battered Captain, spitting teeth and gouts of blood, Held an ear all torn and bleeding in a hand bedaubed with mud. 'You low polluted Bastard! snarled the Captain of the Push, 'Get back where your sort belongs — that's somewhere in the bush. And I hope heaps of misfortunes may soon tumble down on you; May some lousy harlot dose you till your ballocks turn sky-blue! 'May the itching piles torment you; may corns grow on your feet! May crabs as big as spiders attack your balls a treat! And when you're down and outed, to a hopeless bloody wreck, May you slip back through your arsehole and break your fucking neck! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bastard from the Bush (Australian) From: Bugsy Date: 24 Sep 09 - 08:59 PM Ahhh, There's something about a romantic bush ballad that tugs at the heart strings. CHeers Bugsy. |
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