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stir the wallaby stew
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australian pioneer song from the 19th century
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folk singer with acoustic guitar, singing traditional folk-songs and old ballads, and pagan, specifically druidic.
i play guitar and recorders and sing traditional american, english, irish, scottish and australian folksongs, old ballads and some of my own songs. my own songs tend to have pagan themes, specifically, druidic. sometimes one of my friends joins me and we sing harmonies. very occasionally, we sing in other languages.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #150
Peak in subgenre #26
Author
cecil poole
Rights
no
Uploaded
February 09, 2011
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MP3
MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 2:42
Story behind the song
i've known this forever - can't remember where i learned it
Lyrics
poor daddy got five years or more as everybody knows and now he’s working on the road with arrows on his clothes he branded ol brown’s clear skins, ‘e never left a tail now i’ll relate our family’s fate since dad’s been thrown in jail oh it’s stir the wallaby stew, make soup of the kangaroo’s tail, i tell you things are pretty crook since dad’s been thrown in jail. our sheep all died last winter all down with bloody fluke the cow was boozed last christmas by my brother luke, we sold the buggy in the town, the farm is up for sale there’ll be a hell of a lot more gone when dad gets out of jail so stir the wallaby stew, make soup of the kangaroo’s tail, i tell you things are pretty crook since dad’s been thrown in jail our bess got shook upon a bloke whose gone we don’t know where he used to work around the shed and never acted square now ma ’as got some cattle cove forever at ’er tail our family will have grown a bit when dad gets out of jail so stir the wallaby stew, make soup of the kangaroo’s tail, i tell you things are pretty crook since dad’s been thrown in jail they let poor dad out early to give us a surprise he looked around at all of us and gently blessed our eyes he shook ‘ands with the cattle cove, said ‘things are lookin’ stale’ then left ‘im ‘ere with us and said, ‘i’m going back to jail so stir the wallaby stew, make soup of the kangaroo’s tail, i tell you things are pretty crook since dad’s been thrown in jail
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