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I'll introduce a friend he said	A
And if you've got a vacant pen	B
You'd better take him in the shed	A
And start him shearing straight ahead	A
He's one of these here quiet men	B
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He never strikes that ain't his game	C
No matter what the others try	D
He goes on shearing just the same	C
I never rightly knew his name	C
We always call him 'Gundagai '	-
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Our flashest shearer then had gone	E
To train a racehorse for a race	F
And while his sporting fit was on	G
He couldn't be relied upon	G
So Gundagai shore in his place	F
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Alas for man's veracity	H
For reputations false and true	I
This Gundagai turned out to be	H
For strife and all round villainy	G
The very worst I ever knew	G
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He started racing Jack Devine	G
And grumbled when I made him stop	J
The pace he showed was extra fine	G
But all those pure bred ewes of mine	G
Were bleeding like a butcher's shop	J
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He cursed the sheep he cursed the shed	A
From roof to rafter floor to shelf	K
As for my mongrel ewes he said	A
I ought to get a razor blade	L
And shave the blooming things myself	K
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On Sundays he controlled a school	M
And played two up the livelong day	N
And many a young confiding fool	M
He shore of his financial wool	O
And when he lost he would not pay	N
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He organised a shearers' race	F
And touched me to provide the prize	P
His pack horse showed surprising pace	F
And won hands down he was The Ace	F
A well known racehorse in disguise	P
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Next day the bruiser of the shed	A
Displayed an opal tinted eye	D
With large contusions on his head	A
He smiled a sickly smile and said	A
He's had a cut at Gundagai	Q
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But just as we were getting full	O
Of Gundagai and all his ways	R
A telegram for Henry Bull	O
Arrived Said he That's me all wool	O
Let's see what this here message says	S
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He opened it his face grew white	T
He dropped the shears and turned away	N
It ran Your wife took bad last night	T
Come home at once no time to write	T
We fear she may not last the day	N
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He got his cheque I didn't care	U
To dock him for my mangled ewes	V
His store account we called it square	U
Poor wretch he had enough to bear	U
Confronted by such dreadful news	V
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The shearers raised a little purse	W
To help a mate as shearers will	X
To pay the doctor and the nurse	W
And if there should be something worse	W
To pay the undertaker's bill	X
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They wrung his hand in sympathy	H
He rode away without a word	Y
His head hung down in misery	H
A wandering hawker passing by	D
Was told of what had just occurred	Y
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Well that's a curious thing he siad	Z
I've known that feller all his life	A2
He's had the loan of this here shed	A
I know his wife ain't nearly dead	A
Because he hasn't got a wife	A2
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You should have heard the whipcord crack	Q
As angry shearers galloped by	D
In vain they tried to fetch him back	Q
A little dust along the track	Q
Was all they saw of Gundagai	Q

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