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Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began	A
And there was sorrow round the place for Denver was a man	A
Jack Denver's wife bowed down her head her daughter's grief was wild	B
And big Ben Duggan by the bed stood sobbing like a child	B
But big Ben Duggan saddled up and galloped fast and far	C
To raise the longest funeral ever seen on Talbragar	C
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By station home	D
And shearing shed	E
Ben Duggan cried Jack Denver's dead	E
Roll up at Talbragar	C
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He borrowed horses here and there and rode all Christmas Eve	F
And scarcely paused a moment's time the mournful news to leave	F
He rode by lonely huts and farms and when the day was done	G
He turned his panting horse's head and rode to Ross's Run	G
No bushman in a single day had ridden half so far	C
Since Johnson brought the doctor to his wife at Talbragar	C
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By diggers' camps	H
Ben Duggan sped	E
At each he cried Jack Denver's dead	E
Roll up at Talbragar	C
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That night he passed the humpies of the splitters on the ridge	I
And roused the bullock drivers camped at Belinfante's Bridge	I
And as he climbed the ridge again the moon shone on the rise	J
The soft white moonbeams glistened in the tears that filled his eyes	J
He dashed the rebel drops away for blinding things they are	C
But 'twas his best and truest friend who died on Talbragar	C
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At Blackman's Run	G
Before the dawn	K
Ben Duggan cried Poor Denver's gone	K
Roll up at Talbragar	C
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At all the shanties round the place they'd heard his horse's tramp	L
He took the track to Wilson's Luck and told the diggers' camp	L
But in the gorge by Deadman's Gap the mountain shades were black	M
And there a newly fallen tree was lying on the track	M
He saw too late and then he heard the swift hoof's sudden jar	C
And big Ben Duggan ne'er again rode home to Talbragar	C
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The wretch is drunk	N
And Denver's dead	E
A burning shame the people said	E
Next day at Talbragar	C
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For thirty miles round Talbragar the boys rolled up in strength	O
And Denver had a funeral a good long mile in length	O
Round Denver's grave that Christmas day rough bushmen's eyes were dim	P
The western bushmen knew the way to bury dead like him	P
But some returning homeward found by light of moon and star	C
Ben Duggan dying in the rocks five miles from Talbragar	C
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They knelt around	Q
He raised his head	E
And faintly gasped Jack Denver's dead	E
Roll up at Talbragar	C
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But one short hour before he died he woke to understand	R
They told him when he asked them that the funeral was grand	R
And then there came into his eyes a strange victorious light	S
He smiled on them in triumph and his great soul took its flight	S
And still the careless bushmen tell by tent and shanty bar	C
How Duggan raised a funeral years back on Talbragar	C
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And far and wide	T
When Duggan died	T
The bushmen of the western side	T
Rode in to Talbragar	C

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