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In the valley of the Lachlan where the perfume from the pines	A
Fills the glowing summer air like incense spreading	B
Where the silent flowing river like a bar of silver shines	A
When the winter moon it pallid beams is shedding	B
In a hut on a selection near a still and silent pool	C
Lived two mates who used to shear and fence and carry	D
The one was known near and far as Dandy Dan O'Toole	C
And the other as Cornelius McSharry	D
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And they'd share each other's blankets and each other's horses ride	E
And go off together shearing in the summer	D
They would canter on from sunrise to the gloaming side by side	E
While McSharry rode the Barb and Dan the Drummer	D
And the boys along the Lachlan recognised it as a rule	C
From Eugowra to the plains of Wanandarry	D
That if ever love was stronger than McSharry's for O'Toole	C
'Twas the love O'Toole extended to McSharry	D
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And their love might have continued and been constant to the end	F
And they might have still been affable and jolly	D
But they halted at a shanty where the river takes a bend	F
And were waited on by Doolan's daughter Polly	D
Now this pretty Polly Doolan was so natty neat and cool	C
And so pleasant that they both agreed to tarry	D
For she winked her dexter eyelid at susceptible O'Toole	C
While she slyly winked the other at McSharry	D
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So they drank her health in bumpers till the rising of the moon	G
And she had them both in bondage so completely	D
That each time they talked of going she said quot Must you go so soon quot	F
And they couldn't go she smiled at them so sweetly	D
Dan O'Toole grew sentimental and McSharry played the fool	C
Though they each had sworn an oath they'd never marry	D
Yet the self same dart from Cupid's bow that vanquished Dan O'Toole	C
Had gone through the heart of honest Con McSharry	D
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Then McSharry thought if Dandy Dan got drunk and went to bed	F
He McSharry could indulge his little folly	D
And Dan thought if McSharry once in drunken sleep lay spread	F
He could have a little flirt with pretty Polly	D
So they kept the bottle going till they both were pretty full	H
And yet each rival seemed inclined to tarry	D
The precise amount of pain killer it took to fill O'Toole	C
Was required to close the optics of McSharry	D
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So the rivals lost their tempers and they called each other names	I
And disturbed the Doolan children from their pillows	J
And when Doolan came and told them that he wouldn't have such games	I
They must go and fight it out beneath the willows	J
So they went beneath the willows near a deep and shady pool	C
With as much inside as each of them could carry	D
And McSharry started thumping the proboscis of O'Toole	C
And O'Toole retaliated on McSharry	D
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And they fought till they were winded and yet neither had the best	F
Though from each of them the blood was freely flowing	B
And they paused at last to breathe awhile and take a moment's rest	F
But O'Toole's two eyes with rage were fairly glowing	B
Then without a moment's warning he charged forward like a bull	H
And before poor Con had time to run or parry	D
With a terrible momentum the big head of Dan O'Toole	C
Went bump into the stomach of McSharry	D
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And when the force of the concussion laid McSharry out quite still	K
With his feet above his head among the bushes	L
While O'Toole with the momentum cannoned madly down the hill	K
And fell plump in the lagoon among the rushes	L
Like a weedy river god he climbed the far side of the pool	C
And he did not for one single moment tarry	D
For the curse of Cain was in the brain of Dandy Dan O'Toole	C
Who felt certain he had settled poor McSharry	D
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Now while Dan O'Toole was stealing through the still and silent night	F
And his aching brain with pain killer was throbbing	B
McSharry lay and listened till his heart stood still with fright	F
And he eased his guilty soul with silent sobbing	B
For he heard his boon companion falling headlong in the pool	C
And he thought he was as dead as poor old Harry	D
And McSharry mourned the drowning of poor Dandy Dan O'Toole	C
While O'Toole was sadly weeping for McSharry	D
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And the valley of the Lachlan never more will know the men	M
That were once so loving frolicsome and frisky	D
For OToole cleared out to Queensland and was never seen again	M
While McSharry started south and took to whisky	D
And McSharry in his nightmare often sees that fatal pool	C
And the pricks of guilty conscience tries to parry	D
While away among the back blocks wanders Dandy Dan O'Toole	C
Always flying from the ghost of Con McSharry	D

Thomas E. Spencer

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