swagman

She has stopped writing, but observes the life around her, including the stream of swagmen seeking food or tobacco--evidence of a Depression that is rarely acknowledged although the inequality worries her.

Lloyd remarked that the song appeared to have survived there 'better than in the country of its origin'.(62) Although folk song research in Australia began late and focused sharply on indigenous materia1,(63) the song appears in almost every collection, its savvy reprobate hero deemed a natural companion for the outlaws and itinerant swagmen who populate the bush song tradition.

Very soon, one suspects, the swagmen on Sir Matt Busby Way will have to update their "Giggsy 12 Gerrard 0" T-shirts paying homage to his unprecedented collection of title wins.

Apparently he was interested in the stories of swagmen as he toured the property, and it was one of these stories that found its way into the song lyric.

Indeed that includes a goodly number of genuine swagmen and women born beside the best billabongs, from which I demand an immediate return

Miller then requested a move, giving his reasons as: This Roadside Public House is 28 miles from the nearest town and police station--Pilliga--and has been conducted in the roughest style, it offers potent attractions to the lowest class of frequenters, consisting chiefly of shearers, swagmen and race followers, who make it constantly the scene of proceedings of the most disorderly riotous characters--all sit at a common meal table, whether drunk or sober.