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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 "The Bare Belled Ewe" : The Origin of "click Go the Shears"
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'Abstract: The shearers' song "Click Go the Shears" and the 1890 Tom Roberts painting Shearing the Rams have much in common. Despite their present-day acceptance as cultural icons it was not always the case, particularly for the Roberts painting.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 60 no. 9 September 2016 10271546 2016 periodical issue 2016 pg. 98-100
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98-100 "The Bare Belled Ewe" : The Origin of "click Go the Shears"small AustLit logo Quadrant
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