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194010 [2014/04/21 18:39] – Formatting allchin09194010 [2014/04/21 18:44] – [A BALLAD OF BUSHWALKERS' BASIN] allchin09
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 This is a sort of 'historical' record of the river as we once knew it; a supplementary map showing the extent of the dammed water will be later drawn to accompany this map, and thus we will have maps of the river in both 'before and after' processes. This is a sort of 'historical' record of the river as we once knew it; a supplementary map showing the extent of the dammed water will be later drawn to accompany this map, and thus we will have maps of the river in both 'before and after' processes.
  
-Yours faithfully, +Yours faithfully,\\ 
- +C. CAINES PHILLIPS,\\ 
-C. CAINES PHILLIPS, +Convenor\\
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-Convenor +
  
 ===== FEDERATION NOTES ===== ===== FEDERATION NOTES =====
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 (Tune- "Abdul the bulbul Amir.") (Tune- "Abdul the bulbul Amir.")
  
-There's a song of a fight through a day and a night, +There's a song of a fight through a day and a night,\\ 
- +'Twixt Abdul and Ivan Skavar,\\ 
-'Twixt Abdul and Ivan Skavar, +But the tale has no biff,\\ 
- +'cause it's based on a myth,'\\ 
-But the tale has no biff,  +This true one is better by far.\\
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-'cause it's based on a myth, +
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-This true one is better by far. +
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-My tale, 'twill appear, is of no Slavonic peer +
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-Named Ivan Skavinski Skavar, +
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-But of maidens and men much more famous than then, +
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-Their song I will sing it afar. +
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-Casting off trousers and skirts they wear short shorts and shirts, +
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-And are quite accustomed to fear, +
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-And the catalogue long of the deeds they have done, +
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-Fill with envy the Bulbul Amir. +
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-Jack, Harold and others left the care of their mothers +
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-To walk to the Bushwalkers' Basin. +
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-They intended to stroll to that fine water-hole  +
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-Not five miles from Leumeah Station. +
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-They walked all that day and they walked all that night, +
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-'Neath the light of the pale southern stars,  +
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-And all that they found and all that they got +
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-Were scratches-and blisters and scars. +
  
 +My tale, 'twill appear, is of no Slavonic peer\\
 +Named Ivan Skavinski Skavar,\\
 +But of maidens and men much more famous than then,\\
 +Their song I will sing it afar.\\
  
-Now this Club has the seed of a much finer breed+Casting off trousers and skirts they wear short shorts and shirts,\\ 
 +And are quite accustomed to fear,\\ 
 +And the catalogue long of the deeds they have done,\\ 
 +Fill with envy the Bulbul Amir.\\
  
-For Ivan he died most forlorn,+JackHarold and others left the care of their mothers\\ 
 +To walk to the Bushwalkers' Basin.\\ 
 +They intended to stroll to that fine water-hole\\ 
 +Not five miles from Leumeah Station.\\
  
-But our Harold arrived with the next day's sunrise,+They walked all that day and they walked all that night,\\ 
 +'Neath the light of the pale southern stars,\\ 
 +And all that they found and all that they got\\ 
 +Were scratches-and blisters and scars.\\
  
-He arrived like the milk in the morn.+Now this Club has the seed of a much finer breed,\\ 
 +For Ivan he died most forlorn,\\ 
 +But our Harold arrived with the next day's sunrise,\\ 
 +He arrived like the milk in the morn.\\
  
 Frank Duncan. Frank Duncan.
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