Warrego Lament, The

DESCRIPTION: The singer asks if the listener has ever been in Queensland. In Warrego, in Queensland, is his love. "She was black -- but what of that?... She was just the sort for a bushman." He enjoyed her company, but then found she had given him a social disease
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: disease whore bawdy
FOUND IN: Australia
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Meredith/Anderson-FolkSongsOfAustralia, pp. 190-191, 223, "The Warrego Lament" (2 texts, 1 tune)
File: MA190

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