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From The Turning Wave, p. 300 - This song tells of the defeat of Sandy Ross, an Orangeman, by Larry Foley, a Sydney Catholic who was later acknowledged as the greatest Australian prize-fighter of his time. The fight took place at the Georges River near Sydney, on March 28th, 1871.
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When sung, the tune is from the Irish rebel song, The Wearing of the Green.
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This work has been affiliated with the Irishness in Australian Literature dataset because it contains Irish characters, settings, tropes or themes.
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- Georges River, Sydney, New South Wales,
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