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Subject: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: vectis Date: 20 Apr 21 - 12:49 AM Looking for the words to The Robot Shearer, presumably a parody of the Ryebuck Shearer. Anyone out there got the words? Please - pretty please with knobs and bells on... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: rich-joy Date: 20 Apr 21 - 04:10 AM a Roly Griffin composition (NT - or ex-NT?) I was after the lyrics too, for the Mudcat Oz-Enzed Songbook! (when you find them, Vectis - can you post 'em??!!) It is in Vol.4 No.2 on page 28 of the old (defunct?) Oz magazine "Stringybark & Greenhide" - I know this coz Sandra-in-Sydney has just sent me an index to them, by Bob Bolton!! (but I think I passed my mags on years ago .....) Good Luck! R-J |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Apr 21 - 04:53 AM Vectis did you contact Margaret Walters? She passed a request from a NZ friend to me & I told her about S&G.' I just texted her to see if she had S&G, but I do know someone who has them & someone else who might have them. sandra |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: GerryM Date: 20 Apr 21 - 05:44 AM It's by Alan Foster, and it was posted to http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1768 some time ago. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Apr 21 - 06:00 AM Has anybody heard from Alan Foster? He's such a good guy. I miss him |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Apr 21 - 06:53 AM now we have 2 Robot Shearers - the S&G song was written by Roland Griffin for Top End Folk festival, Gerry's post by Alan Foster of Sydney |
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: The Robot Shearer -AlanFoster From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Apr 21 - 07:18 AM ps. both have been posted in the Mudcat Australia/NZ Songbook ============== THE ROBOT SHEARER, by Alan Foster - tune Ryebuck Shearer video - Ryebuck Shearer sung by Ted Egan Based on the Australian traditional song "Ryebuck Shearer" and inspired by the fact that a robot has been invented which is supposed to shear sheep. I come from a factory and my name is F.R.E.D. With bolts in my guts and chips in my head My atomic reactor is safely lined with lead And of course I'm a Robot Shearer. CHORUS: If I don't shear a tally before I go My microchips I will surely blow And straight back to the factory I'll go To reprogram the Robot Shearer. Well the acronym F.R.E.D. is not very nice Ridiculous Electronic Device What the F stands for you'll not have to guess twice And they call me the Robot Shearer. Well the ringer he's a great big red headed lug He said, "I'll beat this bionic mug" But he only won 'cause he pulled my plug And disabled the Robot Shearer. There's a long haired bloke by the name of Clyde What he said about me well it wounded my pride When last seen he was wearing short back and sides That's one for the Robot Shearer. It happened one day while shearing a ram With the delicate touch of my metallic hand That it didn't quite work out the way I planned He'll not forget the Robot Shearer. Whether wool or flesh I can hardly guess So the sheep often leave in a state of distress I once heard someone say that I was RS Which of course stands for Robot Shearer. LAST CHORUS: If I don't shear a tally before I go My microchips I will surely blow And straight back to the factory I'll go To recycle the Robot Shearer. |
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: The Robot Shearer - Roland Griffin From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Apr 21 - 07:20 AM THE ROBOT SHEARER, by Roland Griffin - tune Ryebuck Shearer. Well I've heard about a bloke who's makin' a machine To take the wool off the sheep and take it off clean It doesn't need a man so no shears will be seen And they call it the robot shearer. CHORUS - If it don't shear a tally and it's fuses blow It's silicon chips in the river I'll throw And it's back to the drawing board the scientist will go It's the end of the robot shearer. There's a new one on the board it's the RS21 It doesn't take a tea break at the end of every run The rousies all call it the galvanized gun Yes of course it's the robot shearer. CHORUS Well it doesn't mind the dags and it doesn't mind the smell It doesn't even sweat and it's cheap to feed as well It'll never join the union so I hope it goes to hell Yes a curse on the robot shearer. CHORUS Well it had a little trouble, or so I'm told It found the ewes were difficult to hold It seems they don't like him his hands are always cold Bad luck to the robot shearer. CHORUS The boss he didn't mind when it docked all his lambs Dipped all his wethers and crutched all his dams But he really did his block when it castrated his rams It's the sack for the robot shearer. Published in Stringybark & Greenhide, 4(2), p.28 from Tony Suttor - It was awarded joint first prize in the 1986 Top Half Folk Festival Songwriting Competition, together with Paul Lawler's My Dear Darwin (according to Peter Bate's book Top Half Folk Festivals 1971-2012). |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: GUEST,vectis Date: 27 Apr 21 - 06:47 AM Thank you everyone, you have made an old man (not me) very happy. He now has two to choose from. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Robot Shearer From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 27 Apr 21 - 08:02 AM great, mate! |
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