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Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo single work poetry "If you want a situation, I'll just tell you the plan"

Issue Details: First known date: 1905... 1905 Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo

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Textual variation between versions.
Can be sung to the tune of 'Wearing of the Green.'

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y Old Bush Songs : Composed and Sung in the Bushranging, Digging and Overlanding Days A. B. Paterson (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1905 Z59487 1905 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1905
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1905
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y The North Queensland Register 3 March 1924 Z1125703 1924 newspaper issue 1924
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1924
)
pg. 26 Section: On the Track
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y Freedom on the Wallaby : Poems of the Australian People Marjorie Pizer (editor), Sydney : Pinchgut Press , 1953 Z58626 1953 anthology poetry Sydney : Pinchgut Press , 1953
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1953
)
pg. 37-38
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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. 128-9
Note: First line: 'If you want a situation, I'll just tell you the place,'. Includes annotations by editor. Edwards states: 'The source for this present version is the West Australian Library who have it in manuscript form, with a note to the effect that it had been supplied by a Miss M. McCrae, and had been popular in the north-west of West Australia in the [1880s].'
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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. 164-165
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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. 83
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y The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads [1993] Elizabeth Webby (editor), Philip Butterss (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1993 Z136407 1993 anthology poetry humour satire Ringwood : Penguin , 1993
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1993
)
pg. 173-174

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