There's a Bunk in the Humpy : The Splitter's Song single work   poetry   "The bush was too lonely - the life was too slow,"
  • Author:agent Henry Lawson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lawson-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 There's a Bunk in the Humpy : The Splitter's Song
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  • Editor's note: Stewart and Keesing observe the difference in style from Lawson's other ballads and suggest this may be an old bush song which Lawson 'touched up'.

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