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Subject: FLASH JACK FROM GUNDEGAI From: GUEST,RJM Date: 15 Jul 23 - 04:54 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAmG3Tyyzo bERT lLOYD, Does anyone have a clip of Martyn Wundham Read singing this? |
Subject: RE: FLASH JACK FROM GUNDEGAI From: GerryM Date: 15 Jul 23 - 05:57 PM I don't have a clip, but it's on his Undiscovered Australia CD, see https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/flashjackfromgundagai.html |
Subject: add: Flash Jack from Gundagai From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Jul 23 - 08:18 PM The video in the first post doesn't play in the US, but this one might: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTfy0udL0To
Flash Jack from GundagaiI’ve shore at Burrabogie, and I’ve shore at Toganmain, Chorus I’ve shore at big Willandra and I’ve shore at Tilberoo, Chorus: All among the wool, etc. I’ve pinked ’em with the Wolseleys and I’ve rushed with B-bows, too, I’ve been whalin’ up the Lachlan, and I’ve dossed on Cooper’s Creek, “I’ve pinked ’em with the Wolseleys, and I’ve rushed with B-bows, too.” — Wolseleys and B-bows are respectively machines and hand-shears, and “pinking” means that he had shorn the sheep so closely that the pink skin showed through. “I rung Cudjingie shed and blued it in a week,” i.e., he was the ringer or fastest shearer of the shed, and he dissipated the earnings in a single week’s drunkenness. “Whalin’ up the Lachlan.” — In the old days there was an army of “sundowners” or professional loafers who walked from station to station, ostensibly to look for work, but without any idea of accepting it. These nomads often followed up and down certain rivers, and would camp for days and fish for cod in the bends of the river. Hence whaling up the Lachlan. Source: Source: https://www.australianculture.org/flash-jack-from-gundagai-1905/ |
Subject: RE: Origins: Flash Jack from Gundagai From: Robert B. Waltz Date: 15 Jul 23 - 08:50 PM Joe Offer wrote: “Whalin’ up the Lachlan.” — In the old days there was an army of “sundowners” or professional loafers who walked from station to station, ostensibly to look for work, but without any idea of accepting it. These nomads often followed up and down certain rivers, and would camp for days and fish for cod in the bends of the river. Hence whaling up the Lachlan. Which starts us off-topic, but it leads to a complex of "Lachlan" songs, e.g. "Four Little Johnny Cakes"/"Camping in the Bend," also from Old Bush Songs: Hurrah for the Lachlan, Come join me in my cheer, For that's the place to make a cheque At the end of every year." The singer was "camping in the bend" and fishing... and occasionally "borrowing" from the people who actually do work. We also find sundowners in "The Wallaby Track," which is also about those who wander but don't really work. The term is attested as early as 1869. "Flash" is a British term, but the Australians really seem to have adopted it: Charles R. Thatcher wrote "The Flash Colonial Barman," plus Old Bush Songs has "The Flash Stockman," and there is also a song of "The Flash Sydney Shearers." There was also a broadside, "A New Flash Song, Made on the Noted George Barrington." And I'm clearly getting into one of my information-spouting moods, so I will stop before I become even more boring than I have already been! |
Subject: RE: Origins: Flash Jack from Gundagai From: Reinhard Date: 15 Jul 23 - 09:39 PM Martyn Wyndham-Read's Flash Jack From Gundagai / A Bush Lullaby on his album Emu Plains. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Flash Jack From Gundagai From: GerryM Date: 16 Jul 23 - 01:15 AM The chorus should start, All among the wool, boys, all among the wool. Keep your wide blades full, boys, keep your wide blades full. Thérèse Radic, Songs of Australian Working Life, prints it the way I have it, and writes, "The words are from Banjo Patterson's Old Bush Songs but Paterson's chorus length has been adjusted to fit the tune." |
Subject: RE: Origins: Flash Jack From Gundagai From: GUEST,RJM Date: 16 Jul 23 - 01:40 AM Martyn Wyndham-Read, great voice |
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