Tumba Bloody RumbaJohn O'Brien (aka Nino Culotta) |
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| I was down the
Riverina, knockin' 'round the towns a bit, And occasionally resting with a schooner in me mitt, And on one of these occasions, when the bar was pretty full And the local blokes were arguin' assorted kind of bull, I heard a conversation, most peculiar in its way. It's only in Australia you would hear a joker say: "Howya bloody been, ya drongo, haven't seen ya fer a week, And the other bloke says
"Seen 'im? Owed 'im half a bloody quid. Now the bar was pretty quiet, and
everybody heard Then someone else was interested
to know just what he got, And, as this polite rejoinder
seemed to satisfy the mob, |
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