Ballad of Remembrance
...Are the exploits slowly fading of the folk who forged this land?
Are there more important factors, today for us to understand?
Are we prepared to lose our national character?
Erase our borderlines...
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Categories:
bushrangers, history,
Form: Ballad
The Pirates
...The Pirates
Pirates were around in the 16th century, they flew the
Jolly Roger/Scull & Crossbones and would loot and pillage
Ships at sea, for their rich cargo and gold doubloons
Over the years th...
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Categories:
bushrangers, social,
Form: Narrative
Ned Kelly's Brother
...Kelly Ghosts!
Dan Kelly lived and Steve Hart too,
though the police thought they had fried.
These men were written off it's true,
though two bush rangers ha...
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Categories:
bushrangers, adventureold, people, men, old,
Form: Rhyme
Hunted In 1880
...Hunted
by Don Johnson
Brisbane-Australia
On a bitter cold and moonless night,
there came a gentle knock at the door.
Only half heard Joe did stir from sleep, alight,
to meet a stra...
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Categories:
bushrangers, angstlight, light, men,
Form: Rhyme
The Nellies
...Australian historians, though having penned the tales
about our nation's bushrangers, who mostly were all males,
did somehow fail recording facts on one outlandish gang,
who sneered at all auth...
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Categories:
bushrangers, funny, people,
Form: Ballad