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JACK TRAVERS Brundle Downs 1982 Daly River-OhOh come along you boys who want a bit of funPack up your swag and bring along a gun Get a little bit of flour, sugar and tea And don't forget a gallon of Beenleigh's O.P. Then we'll crank up the old Lizzie and away we'll go Down to the Daly River Oh You'll meet Wallaby George and Charlie Dargie Old Squissie (sic) Taylor and Jimmy Pan Queen, The Tipperary Pong and Jim Wilkie They are noted for their hospitality And they'll give you such a welcome That you'll never go away From the Daly River Oh When you wake up in the morning with your heart full of glee There'll be a little nude maiden with a pannikin of tea And she'll give you such a welcome That you'll never want to go away From the Daly River Oh Now I saw a buffalo bull and a fat Chinese Run a dead heat to the foot of a tree The Chinaman flew and didn't feel the ruts And the buffalo stopped with a bullet in his guts. And the wild birds rose at the sound of the gun And the water dropped a foot in the old billabong With the quacks and the feathers You couldn't see the sun Down on the Daly River Oh While the buffalo kicked we poured in the lead We killed him ten times to make sure he was dead We drew out our knives and we all hopped in, Three whites, two chows, four bucks and a gin We tore off his hide and ripped him in the guts Took out his tit bits and funny comic cuts We cranked up the Lizzie and away we did go Down on the Daly River Oh Now I saw an old nigger sitting up in a tall tree The crows had picked his eyes out so he couldn't see For he was dead as dead could be When Dargie threw a gibber and hit him in the moosh The nigger went 'poof' and we all went bush Back to the Daly River Oh. |