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source: SONGS OF THE I.L.P published Adelaide c. 1915 TUNE: Where the River Shannon Flows SITE SOURCE: SYDNEY FOLKLORE - SECTION 2: Labour History WHERE PARRAMATTA RIVER FLOWSFellow workers pay attention to what I'm going to mention.For it is the fixed intention of the Workers of the World, And I hope you'll all be ready, true-hearted, brave and steady To gather round our standard when the Red Flag is un furled. CHORUS; Where the Parramatta flows, each fellow worker knows, They have bullied and oppressed us, but still our Union grows, And we're got to find a way, boys, for shorter hours and better pay, boys; And we're going to win the day, boys, where the Parramatta flows. For these gunny-sack contractors have all been dirty actors, And they're our benefactors, each fellow worker knows. So we've got to stick together in fine and dirty weather, And we will show no white feather, where the Parramatta flows. Now the boss the law is stretching, bulls and pimps he's fetching, And they are a fine collection, as a wowser only knows. But why their mothers reared them, and why the devil spared them, Are questions we can't answer, where the Parramatta flows
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