Look At Em Crawling
LOOK AT EM CRAWLING...
At the old Darreel pub out near Mungindi....
Trapper Joe he rode up, he come from Boggabri...
The DTs were bad with this poor old bugger Jack...
Look at em crawling he did mutter ...
And his rolling eyes were slack....
Joe wandered to a sandhill caught six mulga snakes for fun... (mulga snakes most deadly
poisonous)...
The tie wire tied their mouths shut, all in the bag cept one...
Joe White went back to the pub with a plan to help old bugger Jack....
As he dropped the snakes upon him they slithered out the sack...(millions of mulga snakes
in Australia)...
Jack he rose up a screaming casting snakes about the bar...
And he ran into the timber swearing off the beer hurrah.....
(Jack was cured that day )....
The undertaker said to Joe sell me a black horse....
I have one said old Joe all black yes of course...
A bit of white on Josies face boot polish it would do...
A week later she came back and the undertaker too...
I need another black horse Joe,... this white star ones for you...
Shes just a little flawed i'll sell her cheap to you...
Joe said
So she buried 13 Platts at Mungindi....Don Johnson...
Joe White my GGrandfather had a special ointment , ...a mixture of...
arsenic bluestone and axle grease..
In the early 1900s medicine was touch and go , poisons nasty drugs so deadly all were used
by the medico, not the knife for big ball billy 50-50 die that way,
Bettere get another keg stop the murrays chanting hey...
see big ball billy on youtube /johnsondon2
They'd ask Joe is it any good Joe the ointment? Joe said not much good ...only that it
would heal up a dorgs ass in 2 days and grow hair on it in the 3rd day
If you got swamp cancer on your horse you smeared the ointment on it and it cleared
up...Would kill a cancer growth on a horse...
Nickabilla Bob asked Joe White what he had for old Lumpy, Lumpy had a cancer on his nose .
So Joe gave some ointment in a tobacco tin Bob came back later and said the cancer was
gone now
Copyright © Don Johnson | Year Posted 2010
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