Lights of Cobb & Co

DESCRIPTION: "Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in th stable; a jingle now and then...." Cobb & Co men travel dusty roads and half-ruined towns to bring the mail and the news; "A hundred miles shall see tonight the lights of Cobb & Co."
AUTHOR: Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (Meredith/Tritton-DukeOfTheOutback)
KEYWORDS: travel Australia horse worker
FOUND IN: Australia
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Meredith/Tritton-DukeOfTheOutback, pp. 78-79, "Lights of Cobb & Co" (1 text, 1 tune)
Stewart/Keesing-FavoriteAustralianBallads, pp. 153-155, "The Lights of Cobb and Co." (1 text)
File: TrMe078

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