CYRIL DUNCAN
Hawthorne Qld
Recorded
Tune: Horseferry Road

Pint Pot & Billy

I dined with the swells in famed Piccadilly,
Took tea with my cousins in Horsemonger Lane,
And now I stranded on my own native shore,
I'll go back to Australia to the goldfields again.

When I asked for a nobbler they asked what I meant, Sir,
I called them all 'new chums' and that served them right
Oh dear, don't I sigh for my favourite old stock horse,
I had when droving on One Man Plain.

A mountain flash rider, a son of Old Scroggins,
Oh dear, don't I wish I was back there again.
Oh don't you remember Ben Hall and his troupe, sir,
Who stuck up the escort and well-guarded mail?

And about that wretch Morgan, I could yet relate, Sir,
But history would serve me to tell a sad tale,
Then give me Australia with my pint, pot and billy,
Making tea in the shade of the gum tree again.

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