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Wallabi Joe single work poetry "The saddle was hung on the stockyard rail,"

Issue Details: First known date: 1865... 1865 Wallabi Joe

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Edwards notes that a version 'appears in the Queenslander's Camp Fire Song Book of 1865 with a note after the title ... suggesting that the text was drawn from an even earlier source'.
Can be sung to the tune of 'The Mistletoe Bough.'
Slight textual variations between versions.

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First known date: 1865

Appears in:

y The North Queensland Register 15 October 1923 Z1425581 1923 newspaper issue 1923
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1923
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pg. 15 Section: On the Track
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. 170-1
Note: Includes annotations by editor.
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. 143-144

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