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Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee	A
To day you see is Christmas Day and so it s up to me	A
To give you some instruction like a kind of Christmas tale	B
So name your yarn and off she goes What Jonah and the Whale	B
Well whales is sheep I ve never shore I ve never been to sea	A
So all them great Leviathans is mysteries to me	A
But there s a tale the Bible tells I fully understand	C
About the time the Patriarchs were settling on the land	C
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Those Patriarchs of olden time when all is said and done	D
They lived the same as far out men on many a Queensland run	D
A lot of roving droving men who drifted to and fro	E
The same we did out Queensland way a score of years ago	E
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Now Isaac was a squatter man and Jacob was his son	D
And when the boy grew up you see he wearied of the run	D
You know the way that boys grow up there s some that stick at home	F
But any boy that s worth his salt will roll his swag and roam	F
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So Jacob caught the roving fit and took the drovers track	G
To where his uncle had a run beyond the outer back	G
You see they made for out back runs for room to stretch and grow	E
The same we did out Queensland way a score of years ago	E
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Now Jacob knew the ways of stock that s most uncommon clear	H
For when he got to Laban s Run they made him overseer	I
He didn t ask a pound a week but bargained for his pay	J
To take the roan and strawberry calves the same we d take to day	J
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The duns and blacks and Goulburn roans that s brindles coarse and hard	K
He branded them with Laban s brand in Old Man Laban s yard	K
So when he d done the station work for close on seven year	H
Why all the choicest stock belonged to Laban s overseer	I
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It s often so with overseers I ve seen the same thing done	D
By many a Queensland overseer on many a Queensland run	D
But when the mustering time came on old Laban acted straight	L
And gave him country of his own outside the boundary gate	L
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He gave him stock and offered him his daughter s hand in troth	M
And Jacob first he married one and then he married both	M
You see they weren t particular about a wife or so	E
No more were we up Queensland way a score of years ago	E
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But when the stock were strong and fat with grass and lots of rain	N
Then Jacob felt the call to take the homeward road again	O
It s strange in every creed and clime no matter where you roam	F
There comes a day when every man would like to make for home	F
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So off he set with sheep and goats a mighty moving band	C
To battle down the homeward track along the Overland	C
It s droving mixed up mobs like that that makes men cut their throats	P
I ve travelled rams which Lord forget but never travelled goats	P
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But Jacob knew the ways of stock for so the story goes	Q
When battling through the Philistines selectors I suppose	Q
He thought he d have to fight his way an awkward sort of job	R
So what did Old Man Jacob do of course he split the mob	R
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He sent the strong stock on ahead to battle out the way	J
He couldn t hurry lambing ewes no more you could to day	J
And down the road from run to run his hand gainst every hand	C
He moved that mighty mob of stock across the Overland	C
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The thing is made so clear and plain so solid in and out	S
There isn t any room at all for any kind of doubt	S
It s just a plain straightforward tale a tale that lets you know	E
The way they lived in Palestine three thousand years ago	E
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It s strange to read it all to day the shifting of the stock	T
You d think you see the caravans that loaf behind the flock	T
The little donkeys and the mules the sheep that slowly spread	U
And maybe Dan or Naphthali a ridin on ahead	U
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The long dry dusty summer days the smouldering fires at night	V
The stir and bustle of the camp at break of morning light	V
The little kids that skipped about the camels dead slow tramp	W
I wish I d done a week or two in Old Man Jacob s camp	W
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But if I keep the narrer path some day perhaps I ll know	E
How Jacob bred them strawberry calves three thousand years ago	E

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