AUSTRALIAN SONGS PUBLISHED IN THE IMPERIAL AND BOOMERANG SONGSTERS

TIBB'S POPULAR SONGBOOK. No. 1 1887. Undated however Vol 2 was published 1888 and refers to the success of 'last year's' publication. Price 2/- Printed by Batty & Chalcraft of Redfern. Songbook has printed orange cover approx 18cmx12cm SONG TUNE FIRST LINE COMMENT Our Oarsman Our Jack's Come Home Today - Bill Beach's return from Europe The Bushy in Town The Spider & The Fly Have you noticed in the city bushman in Sydney The Chinamen Jog Along With our present legislation about Federation debate Squatters and the Reduction Jog Along - Shearer's strike Review Of The Year Pulling Against The Stream This year's been one continuous trouble - The Jackaroo Skidmore Guards If you want a situation - Australia's Happy Land Eluren In The Rhine The shearing's nearly over - The Squatter's Defeat Shan Van Vaght If you give me but a hearing - The Giraffe Irish Emigrant - - DSM/784.8/T TIBB'S POPULAR AUSTRALIAN SONGS & POEMS. No.2 1888 dated Batty & Chalcraft, Redfern. 'To be obtained of all booksellers, stationers, hawkers etc throughout the Colony or direct from the author. G Tibbs' This issue does not nominate tunes and sees Tibbs moving towards doggerel. Tibb's expresses his Scottish heritage in a song composed for NYE titled 'My Heart's At Hame This Nicht' SONG TUNE FIRST LINE COMMENT To Shear At The Peak - I've shore on the Murray, Paroo and Macquarie Blackall and Barkaldon (sic), Tambo and Retreat - The Shearer's Union - The shearings o'er and with many the trouble ahead, for a time at least - The Physic - Oh, Allison, Oh, Allison, and did you feel the pain This song mentions Sydney suburbs A Shilling Please For Ireland - This is the merry Christmas time - Metrical History of New South Wales - - Note that this is not a Tibb's composition Note: The last section of the songster includes several songs from the first volume however; Our Oarsman notes that it was sung by Marion Saunders at the Olympic Theatre on the return of Bill Beach