Australian Convict Ballads

Folklorist Warren Fahey explains the history of Australian convict transportatition ballads and sings Moreton Bay. Visit www.warrenfahey.com for more Australian folklore

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Australian
• folk
• music:
• convict
• transportation

[bodgiefahey]

Good yarn Michael - thanks

[Hammersley1967]

Death is the termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. The word refers both to the particular processes of life's cessation as well as to the condition or state of a formerly living body. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include predation, malnutrition, accidents resulting in terminal injury, and disease. The nature of death has been for millennia a central concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical enquiry...

[pinkpriss]

I'm an American but I would be damn proud to be an Australian. I love Oz, its people, its flora, its fauna, all it has been, all it is and all it stands for! Oz: I salute you, respect you, admire you and I am damn proud of you, I will always support and speak most highly of you and most of all I LOVE YOU!

[myfingershavetheflu]

I know an old coal miner who worked at the Redhead mine in Newcastle and that mine went under the Pacific Ocean and because of that they were always up to their waste in water.

And this bloke Dick was his first name said that when they were eating their lunch they could hear rocks falling from the roof and so when ever this would happen Dick would call out the Mullet are jumping again! to much laughter.

Michael

[ClueLou]

best song I heard (and played) so far is lime juice tub. looking for more sheet music to play on my horn.

[sharpz123]

A true blue aussie ledgend, keep up the good work mate!

[PterodromaSolandri]

warren, you're videos and the australian folklore unit website are utterly invaluable.

[Dwojy18]

Proud to be Aussie. Thanks for the vid.

[StopBeingYouSir]

Good job mate