Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Stringy-Bark Cockatoo Comments

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I'm a broken-hearted miner, who loves his cup to drain,
Which often times has caused me to lie in frost and rain.
Roaming about the country, looking for some work to do,
I got a job of reaping off a stringy-bark cockatoo.
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Dr Antony Theodore 01 December 2019

At night when work was over I'd nurse the youngest child, And when I'd say a joking word, the mother would laugh and smile. The old cocky, he grew jealous, and he thumped me black and blue, And he drove me off without a rap—the stringy-bark cockatoo. a very fine ppe, descriptive

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Dr Antony Theodore 01 December 2019

At night when work was over I'd nurse the youngest child, And when I'd say a joking word, the mother would laugh and smile. The old cocky, he grew jealous, and he thumped me black and blue, And he drove me off without a rap—the stringy-bark cockatoo.

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