Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 188 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Ballads, English > Australia

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Street ballads and the bush -- Sings and songs of the goldfields -- The songs they used to sing -- Stringybark and greenhide -- On the far barcoo -- The balladists -- Folksong in Australia.
2. Index of song titles: A billy of tea -- A bushman's song -- A squatter's troubles -- A thousand miles away -- The backblocks shearer -- Ballarat -- Billy Barlow -- The black velvet band -- Bold Jack Donahoe -- Botany Bay, I -- Botany Bay, II -- The broken-down squatter -- The broken-hearted shearer -- 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 -- Dwell not with me -- 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 -- Look out below! -- Making a pile -- Moreton Bay -- The murrumbidgee shearer -- Mustering song -- 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 -- Rush away -- Sam Holt -- The shearer's dream -- The sheepwasher's lament -- Shepherding -- Sold! -- 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 -- Stringybark Creek --- The swagman -- The unsuccessful swell -- Van Dieman's land -- The voyage to Australia -- Waiting for the rain -- Wallaby Joe -- Weston and his clerk.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. The words of each ballad are preceded by the music.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain