Swagman Poems - Poems about Swagman

...At breakfast I scribble in a notebook questions like: why do I feel like a duck-billed platypus has been nibbling at my brain all night? The I remember the billabong, the kookaburra and the ‘jo......

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...Learning Waltzing Matilda, I instantly knew Australia was the place for me I'd live like a swagman with my pet kangaroo and play under the shade of a Coolibah tree It was Christmas there in the......

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...Yes, we do share our dreams, of course we leave out the inadmissible, the dark alcoves and the flying monkeys. At breakfast I scratch in a notebook, doodle questions like why I feel a duck-b......

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...I wake With joy As i am to Have another Swagman’s Breakfast What succulent fair Awaits me As i ready For another day This meal will see Me through Till my next Feast. I read......

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...The flies like molasses clinging firmly to his back, as aimlessly he ambled along the dry dusty track. Like a wave of the ocean the flies would swarm to his face, but were expertly dispatched with......

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...The Australian Swagman Justin was a Swagman Not by chance but circumstance ......

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...The Swag-man On the north side of the river The water tumbles silver slivers The rocks just peeking out to form a rapid fall The waters speeding over the top of the new born water fall The south si......

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...Waltzing Shearer Out near Dagworth Station during 1894 Where the Waltzing Matilda, Swagman drowned, Cos he liked them lamb chops nicely browned, He was only eating the Masters sheep, scoffin......

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...A Bagman There he walked an unknown Bagman, who camped upon the track. So sad he seemed this Swagman, his jingling billy burnt and black. Yes mate he'd been away with friends, crossed t......

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...A flathead once carried in his tuckerbag a grinder So hungry he sat at a fair dinkum binder But he won't trust his eyes When a fellow donkey arrives To eat up all the remainder --------------......

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