Thursday, January 1, 2004
On The Road To Gundagai Comments
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Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out.
We'd whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about,
So we humped our blues serenely and made for Sydney town,
With a three-spot cheque between us, as wanted knocking down.
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7/28/2025 7:35:14 AM # 1.0.0
Another Australian Folk Song: First published by Banjo Paterson as Lousy Harry's in an article in the Adelaide newspaper The Chronicle 10 March 1900 in this collection. Later printed in Paterson's Old Bush Songs in 1905. Roto is a station in south central NSW. Gundagai lies on what is now the main road from Sydney to Melbourne, the Hume Highway. Perhaps more songs mention Gundagai than any other town in Australia. Three-spot-check: a check in the hundreds of pounds