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The Drover's Dream single work poetry humour "One night with travelling sheep, my companions lay asleep,"

Author:agent Anonymous

Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 The Drover's Dream

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When sung, the melody is the Irish traditional tune, Kilaloo.
Textual variation between versions.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Appears in:

y The North Queensland Register 27 August 1923 Z1125643 1923 newspaper issue 1923
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1923
)
pg. 26 Section: On the Track
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y The North Queensland Register 18 January 1926 Z1467061 1926 newspaper issue 1926
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1926
)
pg. 16 Section: On the Track
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y The North Queensland Register 4 July 1931 Z1464555 1931 newspaper issue 1931
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1931
)
pg. 32 Section: On the Track
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y Old Bush Recitations 'Bill Bowyang' , Bowen : 'Bill Bowyang' , 1932 Z1292466 1932 anthology poetry Bowen : 'Bill Bowyang' , 1933
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1933
)
pg. 14
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y The Penguin Australian Song Book J. S. Manifold , Ringwood : Penguin , 1964 Z406059 1964 anthology poetry Ringwood : Penguin , 1964
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1964
)
pg. 124-125
Note: With musical score.
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y The Overlander Songbook Ronald George Edwards (editor), Ronald George Edwards (illustrator), Ferntree Gully : Rams Skull Press , 1956 Z856165 1956 anthology poetry prose Adelaide : Rigby Publishers , 1971
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1971
)
pg. 94
Note: First line: 'On watch with travelling sheep, all my mates they were asleep,'. Includes annotations by editor.
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y Complete Book of Australian Folk Lore Bill Scott , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1976 Z206758 1976 anthology poetry short story prose Sydney : Ure Smith , 1976
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1976
)
pg. 136-137
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y Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times Douglas Stewart (editor), Nancy Keesing (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z389570 1957 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976
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1976
)
pg. 252
Note: With first line: 'I was travelling with the sheep, all my mates were fast asleep,'
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y Love and History, Peace and War : Australia's Heritage in Verse Jim Keeffe (editor), Townsville : Simple Images , 1985 Z1293661 1985 anthology poetry Townsville : Simple Images , 1985
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1985
)
pg. 67
Note: Attributed to Bill Bowyang.
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y The Bushwackers Australian Song Book Jan Wositzky (editor), Dobe Newton (editor), South Yarra : Sphere , 1988 Z240373 1988 anthology poetry short story extract humour South Yarra : Sphere , 1988
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1988
)
pg. 100-101
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y A Collection of Australian Bush Verse Castle Hill : Peter Antill-Rose , 1989 Z91384 1989 anthology poetry Castle Hill : Peter Antill-Rose , 1989
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1989
)
pg. 23
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y The Turning Wave : Poems and Songs of Irish Australia Colleen Burke (editor), Vincent Woods (editor), Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 2001 Z929605 2001 anthology poetry Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 2001
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2001
)
pg. 115
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y An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse Jim Haynes (editor), Sydney : ABC Books , 2002 Z985597 2002 anthology poetry Sydney : ABC Books , 2002
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2002
)
pg. 303-304
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y School Magazine. Blast Off! vol. 103 no. 10 November 2018 26296298 2018 periodical issue 2018
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2018
)
pg. 32-33

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