Since The Country Carried Sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHHIIJJ CCFF CCCC CCKK CCFF| We trucked the cows to Homebush saw the girls and started back | A |
| Went West through Cunnamulla and got to the Eulo track | A |
| Camped a while at Gonybibil but Lord you wouldn't know | B |
| It for the place where you and Mick were stockmen long ago | B |
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| Young Merino bought the station fenced the run and built a 'shed' | C |
| Sacked the stockmen sold the cattle and put on sheep instead | C |
| But he wasn't built for Queensland and every blessed year | D |
| One hears of 'labour troubles' when Merino starts to shear | D |
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| There are ructions with the rouseabouts and shearers' strikes galore | E |
| The likes were never thought of in the cattle days of yore | E |
| And slowly round small paddocks now the 'sleeping lizards' creep | F |
| And Gonybibil's beggared since the country carried sheep | F |
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| Time was we had the horses up ere starlight waned away | G |
| The billy would be boiling by the breaking of the day | G |
| And our horses by Protection were aye in decent nick | H |
| When we rode up the 'Bidgee where the clearskins mustered thick | H |
| They've built brush yards on Wild Horse Creek where in the morning's hush | I |
| We've sat silent in the saddle and listened for the rush | I |
| Of the scrubbers when we heard 'em 'twas wheel 'em if you can | J |
| While gidgee pine and mulga tried the nerve of horse and man | J |
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| The mickies that we've branded there the colts we had to ride | C |
| In Gonybibil's palmy days before the old boss died | C |
| Could Yorkie Hawkins see his run I guess his ghost would weep | F |
| For Gonybibil's beggared since the country carried sheep | F |
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| From sunrise until sunset through the summer days we'd ride | C |
| But stockyard rails were up and pegged with cattle safe inside | C |
| When 'twixt the gloamin' and the murk we heard the well known note | C |
| The peal of boisterous laughter from the kookaburra's throat | C |
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| Camped out beneath the starlit skies the tree tops overhead | C |
| A saddle for a pillow and a blanket for a bed | C |
| 'Twas pleasant mate to listen to the soughing of the breeze | K |
| And learn the lilting lullabies which stirred the mulga trees | K |
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| Our sleep was sound in those times for the mustering days were hard | C |
| The morrows might be harder with the branding in the yard | C |
| But did yu see the station now the men and mokes they keep | F |
| You'd own the place was beggared since the country carred sheep | F |
Harry 'breaker' Harbord Morant
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