Shearing in a Bar

DESCRIPTION: "My shearing days are over, though I never was a gun, I could always count my twenty at the end of every run." Despite his lack of success while actually working as a shearer, the singer never has trouble "when I'm shearing in a bar."
AUTHOR: Duke Tritton (source: Meredith/Tritton-DukeOfTheOutback)
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (field recording of Duke Tritton)
KEYWORDS: humorous sheep worker drink
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Meredith/Tritton-DukeOfTheOutback, pp. 69-70, "Shearing in a Bar" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Matthew Richardson, _Once a Jolly Swagman: The Ballad of Waltzing Matilda_, Melbourne University Press, 2006, p. 54, "Shearing in a Bar" (1 excerpt)
Roud #24811
NOTES [27 words]: Although quite recently composed, I'm sure I've heard this somewhere, so it seems to have gotten passed around at least a little bit. I index it on that basis. - RBW
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File: TrMe069

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