I've Been to Australia, Oh!

DESCRIPTION: The singer warns, "So now my friends, take my advice, and never think to go Or you will rue the day you went to Australia-oh." While there, his wife, money, and clothes were stolen. Facing with high prices, he has to do manual labour. He hopes to go home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1957 (Old Bush Songs); Ron Edwards reportedly found a version dated 1862; Anderson estimates his broadside as c. 1854
KEYWORDS: Australia poverty work hardtimes emigration robbery
FOUND IN: Australia
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 203-204, "I've Been to Australia O" (1 text)
Fahey-Eureka-SongsThatMadeAustralia, pp. 106-107, "I've Been to Australia, Oh!" (1 text, 1 tune)
Paterson/Fahey/Seal-OldBushSongs-CentenaryEdition, pp. 105-108, "I've Been to Australia-o" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Geoffrey C. Ingleton, _True Patriots All: or News from Early Australia as told in A Collection of Broadsides_ ("Garnered and Decorated" by Ingleton), Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988, p. 258, "Iv'e Been To Australia O" (1 text, and yes, the headline is spelled "IV'E")
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Pommy's Lament" (theme)
File: FaE106

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