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Textual variations appear in texts

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Each source has a different version of the folksong. Words have been adapted over time.

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Editor's note: Bill Scott believes the song was composed in the 1860s because it mentions John Robertson.

Appears in:

y The Queenslander 3 November 1894 Z605293 1894 newspaper issue 1894
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1894
)
pg. 836
Note: In Column: Flotsam and Jetsam
Appears in:

y Old Bush Songs : Composed and Sung in the Bushranging, Digging and Overlanding Days A. B. Paterson (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1905 Z59487 1905 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1905
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1905
)
Appears in:

y The North Queensland Register 25 August 1924 Z1437442 1924 newspaper issue 1924
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1924
)
pg. 22 Section: On the Track
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y The Penguin Australian Song Book J. S. Manifold , Ringwood : Penguin , 1964 Z406059 1964 anthology poetry Ringwood : Penguin , 1964
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1964
)
pg. 140-141
Note: With musical score.
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y From the Ballads to Brennan T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 Z407973 1964 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964
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1964
)
pg. 9-11
Appears in:

y The Overlander Songbook Ronald George Edwards (editor), Ronald George Edwards (illustrator), Ferntree Gully : Rams Skull Press , 1956 Z856165 1956 anthology poetry prose Adelaide : Rigby Publishers , 1971
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1971
)
pg. 74-5
Note: With title: The Old Bullock Dray 2. Includes annotations by editor.
Appears in:

y The Overlander Songbook Ronald George Edwards (editor), Ronald George Edwards (illustrator), Ferntree Gully : Rams Skull Press , 1956 Z856165 1956 anthology poetry prose Adelaide : Rigby Publishers , 1971
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1971
)
pg. 72-3
Note: With title: The Old Bullock Dray 1. Includes annotations by editor.
Appears in:

y Complete Book of Australian Folk Lore Bill Scott , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1976 Z206758 1976 anthology poetry short story prose Sydney : Ure Smith , 1976
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1976
)
pg. 180-181
Appears in:

y Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times Douglas Stewart (editor), Nancy Keesing (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z389570 1957 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976
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1976
)
pg. 160-161
Note: First line: 'Oh! the shearing is all over,'
Appears in:

y Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times Douglas Stewart (editor), Nancy Keesing (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z389570 1957 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976
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1976
)
pg. 162
Note: Another variation to the version printed on pp.160-161. First line: 'Now the shearing is all over and the wool is coming down,'
Appears in:

y Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum Geoffrey Dutton (editor), Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 Z399014 1976 anthology Adelaide : Rigby , 1976
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1976
)
pg. 63-64
Appears in:

y My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z219820 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985
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1985
)
pg. 28-29
Appears in:

y A Collection of Australian Bush Verse Castle Hill : Peter Antill-Rose , 1989 Z91384 1989 anthology poetry Castle Hill : Peter Antill-Rose , 1989
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1989
)
pg. 93
Appears in:

y A Treasury of Bush Verse G. A. Wilkes (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z61919 1991 anthology poetry humour North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991
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1991
)
pg. 12-13
Appears in:

y The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads [1993] Elizabeth Webby (editor), Philip Butterss (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1993 Z136407 1993 anthology poetry humour satire Ringwood : Penguin , 1993
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1993
)
pg. 158-159
Appears in:

y Anthology of Bullock Poetry Janice Downes , Port Macquarie : Janice Downes , 2006 Z1328899 2006 anthology poetry Port Macquarie : Janice Downes , 2006
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2006
)
pg. 30
Appears in:

y An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 John Kinsella (editor), Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library , 2007 Z1908582 2007 anthology poetry column prose Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library , 2007
(
2007
)
pg. 242-243
Appears in:

y Australian Poetry Since 1788 Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Robert Gray (editor), Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1803846 2011 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) Abstract 'A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011
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2011
)
pg. 23-24