Long Are you fair dinkum Poems

Every year our community gets together at the annual church fair. This year they have changed the format with some new events and dropping some of the old events that appeared a little dangerous. How...

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With all the world 
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Once there was dingo, rabidly mad as he could be
who thought he was a Bruce of a man by how he spoke
But no man would call him their 'mate,' for you see...
he was a mongrel...

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By Robert (Bob) Moore (©2015)

The gun shearer has gone now, like many other things
the shearing sheds are empty, and wools no longer king
gone now like the drover, and the brumbie on the plains
but we still...

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Hilly lent me his post hole digger ‘cause I’m putting up a fence
around me veggie garden, so I could give it some defence
from marauding sheep and cattle that some keep on their block,
and forget about...

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WE’RE FAIR DINKUM DANCING TONIGHT

We’re fair dinkum dancing tonight,
oh what a beautiful sight,
the rain’s pouring down -
there’s mud all around.
We’re fair dinkum dancing tonight.

We’re fair dinkum dancing tonight,
the music has set us alight,
and it’s long...

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“We’ll need to get him good and drunk, 
So then we can have our way. 
As a Sheila he’ll go in the trunk, 
Then we’ll put him on display.” 

Sam had his sister’s evening gown,...

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Fair dinkum mate I feel like a Tassie Tiger
And I’m not bullin’ you, and a real galah as well
How come this bloody sheila to such charms succumbs
I’m telling you me heart is racing and I...

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Every day in every country,
Our language is distorted, mutated on planet Earth.
Good words like “drolic” die,
Whilst “wanna ‘ave a go” is given a birth.

In Australia it’s clearly a Mad World with
Slang words destroying our grammar.
“Yeah...

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"What A Week"

What a week I've had,it's been so hard,I don't know where to start
I did'nt think I'd make it,fair dinkum,I mean it,I thought I'd fall apart,
So many mixed emotions,a roller coaster ride
Not one that...

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It's enough to make one chunder
there used to be a time Down Under
when fair dinkum the label on the tucker tin
only stated the true blue maker's name
and the Vegemite we'd eat for brekkie contained therein
while...

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FARMERS WISH 


Woke up this morning with the sun in my eyes
Wishing for rain in the clear blue skies
We’re faced with a problem every single day 
Our stocks are all dying right were they lay

Tanks...

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In the land of Oz, we're all fair dinkum,
Every bloke, Sheila and Healer too.
By crikey mate, if you get us started,
You'll regret the day I guarantee you.

In bonza days some may call hard yakka,
With an...

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We Aussie like to have a bite
Of bread and butter and vegemite
We’ll save a Crumble bar for you
Cherry Ripe and Lamingtons too
With snags and meat pies all life long
Instant Pavolvas seem all wrong
Toohey’s and Carlton...

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I was in love with the most lovable sheila
but she did darn take off with me heeler
Overnight, she had packnd their bags
not just me dog, gone too with me scallywags
Left with just a simple note
she...

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A FOPDOODLE SONNET
Hello y'all,
no more cherry-picking
and double speak,
it just ain't right !

Say,dude,
are you out to lunch?
your dialect 
is pure music!

Fair dinkum though,
strine it is not,
nor polite English,
more an Americanism!

Ok, it's pc ,I grant
a royal shibboleth,
douable...

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