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Billy Barlow's Trip to the Diggings single work   poetry   "Here's Billy Barlow, if he's not come too late"
Issue Details: First known date: 1869... 1869 Billy Barlow's Trip to the Diggings
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Notes

  • 'Billy Barlow' was a stock fictional comic figure across the English speaking world during the 19th century. In similar vein to the mid 19th century 'Billy Barlow' colonial songs, this poem traces the misfortunes of an overconfident bumbling new-chum Englishman in the Australian colonies.

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