Boorowa Was Boorowa

DESCRIPTION: "Boorowa was Boorowa when Young was a pup, And Boorowa will be Boorowa when Young is buggered up."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Fahey-Joe-Watson-AustralianTraditionalFolkSinger)
KEYWORDS: political nonballad
FOUND IN: Australia
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fahey-Joe-Watson-AustralianTraditionalFolkSinger, [p. 17, page headed "After several social visits..."], "(no title)" (1 short text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "So Give Me Old Boorowa" (subject of Boorowa)
NOTES [95 words]: Boorowa is a small town and a river in New South Wales, north and somewhat west of Canberra, west and somewhat south of Sydney, almsot due west of Woolongong. Young is a slightly larger town to the west, which according to Andrew and Nancy Learmonth, Encyclopedia of Australia, 2nd edition, Warne & Co, 1973, p. 605, was once a gold mining town. Thus the residents of Boorowa, who were not dependent on mining, might think their town would still be around when its neighbor shut down. But Young found other ways to survive, so this song's boast is (so far) false. - RBW
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