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The Freehold On the Plain single work poetry "I'm a broken-down old squatter, my cash it is all gone,"

Issue Details: First known date: 1909... 1909 The Freehold On the Plain

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Slight textual variations.
Editor's note: According to Bill Scott, the poem can be sung to the tune of 'The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane.' The Moreton Bay Bushwackers recorded the song in 'Folksongs from Queensland' in 1959.

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Appears in:

y The Queenslander 4 December 1909 Z1478569 1909 newspaper issue 1909
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1909
)
pg. 55
Appears in:

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. 139
Note: Includes annotations by editor.
Appears in:

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
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pg. 150-151
Appears in:

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. 173-174
Appears in:

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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