The Convicts are Coming! single work   poetry   humour   "Come give me the fellow that robbed the North Mail,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1851... 1851 The Convicts are Coming!
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Notes

  • Editor's note: 'An excellent new song, sung with unbounded applause at the after-dinner meeting in the Great Room of the Club House, Bent-street, Sydney by a Royal Navy Squatter from the Clarence River. N.B. The song was sung in character, the performer being dressed in a Guernsey frock, with a leather belt round his waist, a cabbage-tree hat on, rather the worse for wear, and a short tobacco pipe stuck in the corner of his mouth, after the manner of the Squatters.'

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    y separately published work icon The Press vol. 1 no. 6 5 February 1851 Z1788963 1851 newspaper issue 1851 pg. 54
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