Rouseabouts

DESCRIPTION: "With swear and curse and oaths and worse, We sauntered to the she: We 'Ere, Sir," bawled, as names were called" as they set to work, "And wished the sheep were dead." The singer describes all the work the rouseabouts are made to do
AUTHOR: Words: George Meek
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Meek, Station Days in Maoriland); supposedly written c. 1910; collected 1967/1968
KEYWORDS: work sheep travel hardtimes nonballad
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry, p. 96, "Rouseabouts" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Col2096

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