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Ye children of the Land of Gold	A
I sing a song to you	B
And if the jokes are somewhat old	A
The main idea is new	B
So be it sung by hut and tent	C
Where tall the native grows	D
And understand the song is meant	C
For singing through the nose	D
There dwelt a hard old cockatoo	B
On western hills far out	E
Where everything is green and blue	B
Except of course in drought	E
A crimson Anarchist was he	F
Held other men in scorn	G
Yet preached that ev ry man was free	F
And also ekal born	G
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He lived in his ancestral hut	H
His missus wasn t there	I
And there was no one with him but	H
His daughter Mabel Clare	I
Her eyes and hair were like the sun	J
Her foot was like a mat	K
Her cheeks a trifle overdone	J
She was a democrat	K
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A manly independence born	G
Among the trees she had	L
She treated womankind with scorn	G
And often cursed her dad	L
She hated swells and shining lights	M
For she had seen a few	B
And she believed in women s rights	M
She mostly got em too	B
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A stranger at the neighb ring run	J
Sojourned the squatter s guest	N
He was unknown to anyone	J
But like a swell was dress d	F
He had an eyeglass to his eye	O
A collar to his ears	P
His feet were made to tread the sky	O
His mouth was formed for sneers	P
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He wore the latest toggery	I
The loudest thing in ties	Q
Twas generally reckoned he	F
Was something in disguise	Q
But who he was or whence he came	R
Was long unknown except	S
Unto the squatter who the name	R
And noble secret kept	S
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And strolling in the noontide heat	T
Beneath the blinding glare	I
This noble stranger chanced to meet	T
The radiant Mabel Clare	I
She saw at once he was a swell	U
According to her lights	M
But ah tis very sad to tell	U
She met him oft of nights	M
	-
And strolling through a moonlit gorge	V
She chatted all the while	W
Of Ingersoll and Henry George	V
And Bradlaugh and Carlyle	W
In short he learned to love the girl	X
And things went on like this	Y
Until he said he was an Earl	X
And asked her to be his	Z
	-
Oh say no more Lord Kawlinee	J
Oh say no more she said	A2
Oh say no more Lord Kawlinee	J
I wish that I was dead	A2
My head is in a hawful whirl	X
The truth I dare not tell	U
I am a democratic girl	X
And cannot wed a swell	U
	-
Oh love he cried but you forget	B2
That you are most unjust	C2
Twas not my fault that I was set	B2
Within the upper crust	C2
Heed not the yarns the poets tell	U
Oh darling do not doubt	E
A simple lord can love as well	U
As any rouseabout	E
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For you I ll give my fortune up	D2
I d go to work for you	B
I ll put the money in the cup	D2
And drop the title too	B
Oh fly with me Oh fly with me	F
Across the mountains blue	B
Hoh fly with me Hoh fly with me	F
That very night she flew	B
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They took the train and journeyed down	J
Across the range they sped	E
Until they came to Sydney town	J
Where shortly they were wed	E
And still upon the western wild	E
Admiring teamsters tell	U
How Mabel s father cursed his child	E
For clearing with a swell	U
	-
What ails my bird this bridal night	E
Exclaimed Lord Kawlinee	J
What ails my own this bridal night	E
O love confide in me	F
Oh now she said that I am yaws	Z
You ll let me weep I must	E
I did desert the people s cause	Z
To join the upper crust	E
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O proudly smiled his lordship then	J
His chimney pot he floor d	F
Look up my love and smile again	J
For I am not a lord	E
His eye glass from his eye he tore	I
The dickey from his breast	E
And turned and stood his bride before	I
A rouseabout confess d	F
	-
Unknown I ve loved you long he said	E
And I have loved you true	B
A shearing in your guv ner s shed	E
I learned to worship you	B
I do not care for place or pelf	B
For now my love I m sure	I
That you will love me for myself	B
And not because I m poor	I
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To prove your love I spent my cheque	O
To buy this swell rig out	E
So fling your arms about my neck	O
For I m a rouseabout	E
At first she gave a startled cry	I
Then safe from care s alarms	Z
She sigh d a soul subduing sigh	I
And sank into his arms	Z
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He pawned the togs and home he took	O
His bride in all her charms	Z
The proud old cockatoo received	E
The pair with open arms	Z
And long they lived the faithful bride	E
The noble rouseabout	E
And if she wasn t satisfied	E
She never let it out	E

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