Lyr Req: The Blooming Queensland Side

Subject: Lyr Add: THE BLOOMING QUEENSLAND SIDE
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 01:10 AM

Copied from AllDownUnder.com:


THE BLOOMING QUEENSLAND SIDE

MAN: Oh, come with me, my pretty girl. Now come away with me.
I'll take you o'er the borders and we'll leave this colony
Come away, my heart's desire, my darling and my pride,
And I'll treat you like a lady, love, on the blooming Queensland side.

Victoria's going to the bad. This bullocky cannot live.
The price of cartage comes so low, the squatters nothing to give.
There's a railway in every corner. You can meet them at every stride,
So we'll away in the morning to the blooming Queensland side.

So have your things in readiness at the breaking of the day.
I'll take you to the parson, love, and the words o'er us he'll say.
When he has tied us two together with a knot that can't be untied,
Then we'll away in the morning to the blooming Queensland side.

WOMAN: I would like to know if you've been true. I would like to know that same.
You bullockies are such knowing chaps, you are up to every game.
Perhaps, with some young dashing bell a-walking by your side,
You've been doing a little killing on the blooming Queensland side.

MAN: If old Whitefoot in the pole could speak, I bet he'd answer, "No."
I always have been true to you wherever I did go.
And if I now prove false to you, may the grave my body hide,
And I'll never set foot again on the blooming Queensland side.

WOMAN: I know my bullocky is true—was always always true to me.
I only wanted to try you and hear what you would say.
Then I will be a constant wife until death us divide.
Then you can marry the prettiest girl on the blooming Queensland side.

MAN: I'll teach you my darling, a damper how to bake,
Fry chops in the morning, and cook a brownie cake,
And on top of my wagon so gaily you will ride,
They will think you're Queen Victoria a-going for a drive.

It's over the pole each night we'll cast the canvas down,
And underneath its spreading folds we'll sleep both safe and sound.
The cold will never trouble you, for the weather is always mild,
And the summer breezes gently blow on the blooming Queensland side.

When over in Queensland you are arrived at home.
It's up and down the Condamine of an evening you can roam.
Enjoy yourself to your heart's content and cast dull care aside,
For you'll be the happiest bullocky's wife on the blooming Queensland side.

Subject: RE: Blooming Queensland side
From: Ted From Australia
Date: 03 Aug 97 - 07:24 AM

Us Aussies did not borrow Irish tunes!!!!! . The Irish came out here, could not sing our song unless they put them to their own familiar tunes,then sang them to us so much that we forgot the originals.

Subject: Blooming Queensland side
From: Alison
Date: 03 Aug 97 - 07:01 AM

Hi

Anyone know the words to this one. It's sung to the tune of Skibbereen. (Alan, see how well I resisted the chance to mention that the Aussies "borrowed" another Irish tune.)

Ooops...........someone else must have typed that last bit. Couldn't have been me!

Thanks

Slainte

Alison