Dirran Aggie
Dirranbandi Aggie
Agnes was a local lady, slight,
who had a different view,
Didn’t trust no lectric light,
might just burn her eyeballs too,
fat lamp a bubbling.
yes she lived in a ole brown house,
built yes for her, by her soldier husband,
2 pommy ladies offered to paint her roof, (english)
Silver frost paint on the iron did land,
Yes McGovern. (old Aubrey, me mate)
So she asked about the walls,
Cheapest was the silver frost,
Shining in the blazing sun,
Knock ya eyeballs flat, the cost,
Burnt eyeball loving?
Sheep head soup, was on the menu,
Eyeballs swimming in the soup,
In the rainwater tanks were a sleeping,
Chooks n rellies, in a group, (relatives)
They was stubborn. (coots)
corrugated igloos held galoots,
eggs sometimes found an lost,
long as the rooster got the boot,
bit fowl if he was crossed,
cook him in the old wood stove oven…
Don Johnson
Copyright © Don Johnson | Year Posted 2012
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