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I mind the river from Mount Frome	A
To Ballanshantie s Bridge	B
The Mudgee Hills and Buckaroo	C
Lowe s Peak and Granite Ridge	B
The tailers in the creek beneath	D
The rugged she oak boles	E
The river cod where shallows linked	F
The willowed water holes	E
I mind the blacksoil river flats	G
The red soil levels too	H
The sidings where below the scrub	I
The golden wattles grew	H
The track that ran by Tierney s Gap	J
The dusk and ghost alarms	K
The glorious morning on the hills	L
And all the German farms	K
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I mind the blue grey gully bush	M
The slab and shingle school	N
The soldier birds that picked the crumbs	O
Beneath the infants stool	N
Ah did those little soldier birds	P
That whispered ever know	Q
That one of us should rise so high	R
And sadly sink so low	Q
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I mind the lessons that we droned	S
In books from Irish schools	T
The canings and the keepings in	U
For breaking bounds and rules	T
Ah little did the teacher dream	V
That one of us perchance	W
Might write in London to be read	X
In Germany and France	W
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I mind the days we played at camp	Y
With billy can and swag	Z
I mind the notes sent home by girls	A2
When someone played the wag	Z
Ah little did the master think	Z
Who d lost the roving star	C
What truants in their after years	B2
Would play the wag so far	C
	-
I mind when first he gave to me	C2
A pen and ink to write	D2
And last the Fourth Class Forms he made	E2
I shared with Lucy White	D2
The other boys were other boys	F2
With cricket ball and bat	G2
They had a fine contempt for girls	A2
But they got over that	G2
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The rounders where the girls came in	U
The Tomboy and the rest	H2
The earnest game of Pris ners Base	I2
The game that I liked best	H2
The kangarooing on the ridge	B
And in the brown moonlight	D2
The possuming across the flats	G
With dogs and gun at night	D2
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The specking in old diggers heaps	J2
For colours after rain	K2
The horse shoes saved against the time	L2
The circus came again	M2
And sold to Jimmy Siver right	D2
The blacksmith on the flat	G2
The five corners the swimming hole	N2
Oh I remember that	G2
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I mind the holland dinner bags	O2
A book bag of green baize	P2
The bread and dripping bread and meat	Q2
And bread and treacle days	P2
The bread and butter swopped for meat	Q2
The crumb we swopped for crust	R2
We ve married and divorced since then	M2
And most old homes are dust	R2
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It was the time it was the place	I2
Australia s hardest page	S2
When boys were cast for farming work	Z
At fourteen years of age	S2
It was the time it was the place	I2
The latter Early Day	T2
When boys ride home from old bark schools	T
And to the world away	T2
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I ve drifted through Port Said since then	M2
Naples and Leicester Square	C
And Collins and Macquarie Streets	U2
I know the secrets there	C
Ah me The country boy and girl	V2
The country lass and lad	W2
As innocent as soldier birds	P
Though we thought we were bad	W2
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But spite of all their daring truth	X2
And some work that shall last	Y2
The bitter years of my brave youth	X2
Are better in the past	Y2
This does not call for bitterness	Z2
Nor does it call for tears	A3
The purest little thing perhaps	B3
I ve printed here for years	B2
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The railway runs by Mudgee Hills	L
Old farms are lost or lone	C3
And children s children sadly go	Z
To schools of brick and stone	C3
Yet are the same The Mudgee Hills	L
And Mudgee skies as fair	C
And the little grey clad soldier birds	P
Are just as busy there	C

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