Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 261 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Uniform title

1. Colonial ballads

Alternative title

1. Colonial ballads

Subject

1. Ballads, Australian
2. Folk songs, Australian > History and criticism

Contents

1. A billy of tea -- A bushman's song -- A squatter's troubles -- A thousand miles away -- The backblocks shearer -- Billy Barlow -- The black velvet band -- Bold Jack Donahoe -- Botany Bay I -- Botany Bay II -- Botany Bay III -- The broken-down squatter -- The broken-hearted shearer -- Bryant's ranges O. -- The bushman -- Bushranger Jack Power -- Buying land -- The cabbage-tree hat -- Castlemaine -- The Chinaman -- Colonial courtship -- Colonial experience -- The death of Sly Grog -- The drover's song -- Dunn, Gilbert and Ben Hall -- The dying stockman -- The Eumarella shore -- Farewell to judges and juries -- The fine fat saucy Chinaman -- The flash colonial barman -- Frank Gardiner -- The freehold on the plain -- The German girls -- The giraffe -- Goorianawa -- Green new chum -- The grog tent we got tipsy in -- Hawking -- Hey, boys! Up go we! -- The jackaroo -- Jim Jones -- Jog along till shearing -- John Gilbert -- The jolly puddlers -- The lady and the bullock driver -- Laying information -- Look out below! -- Making a pile -- Moreton Bay -- The Murrumridgee shearer -- Mustering song -- Native mate -- New chum in the country -- The old bark hut -- The old palmer song -- The overlander I -- The overlander II -- The overlander III -- Paddy Malone -- Poll the grogseller -- Review of the year -- The rowdy mob -- Sam Holt -- The shearer's dream -- The sheepwasher's lament -- Shepherding -- Sold! -- The song of old Joe Swallow -- The song of the trap -- The squatter of the olden time -- The squatter's defeat -- The squatter's man -- The stockman I -- The stockman II -- The stockman's last bed I -- The stockman's last bed II -- The stockmen of Australia -- Stringybark and Greenhide -- The stringybark cockatoo -- Stringybark Creek -- The swagman -- The unsuccessful swell -- Van Diemen's land -- The voyage to Australia -- Waiting for the rain -- Wallaby Joe -- Weston and his clerk -- The whaler's rhyme -- Where's your licence? -- The wild colonial boy -- With my swag all on my shoulder.

Call number

1. JMD 72-140

Note

1. Previous editions have title: Colonial ballads.
2. "With words, music, and guitar chords to 91 Australian folksongs."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261).

Author

1. Anderson, Hugh, editor.

Title

1. The story of Australian folksong / With illus. by Ronald G. Edwards.

Imprint

1. New York : Oak Publications, [1970]

Edition

1. [3d ed.].

Type of content

1. notated music

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261).

Other form:

1. Online version: Anderson, Hugh. Colonial ballads. Story of Australian folksong. [3d ed.]. New York, Oak Publications [1970] (OCoLC)620034760

LCCN

1. 69017641

ISBN

1. 0825601096
2. 9780825601095

Research call number

1. JMD 72-140