Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - The Wild Colonial Boy
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good tune, very catchy: jack Doogan...ROFLLL... love it mister.
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Africa for Africans. Asia for Asians. Turkey for Turks. Ireland and every white nation for EVERYONE. It is genocide.
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One of my bunkmates at Fort Belvoir, VA played his transistor radio in 1963 at night, and this song was often played on WAVA-FM from Arlington, VA. Fond memories for me...
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@ZephyrForza God I love Australia? What does that even mean?
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@jrm0205 ah know.gawny geeza brek
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cmon guys... its just a tale told by good people to pass the time.... it is what life is about...no analysis please...that song is freakin legend!
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@hkeddieme I agree! God i love australia!
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Many a night I have sang this song on the walk back to my home from the pub....much to the regret of my sleeping neighbors.
BoyMixer 2 years ago 32
In Australia the name is often Jack Doolan Whether the song is about an actual bushranger is not clear. Bold Jack Donahue was a real bushranger who died in 1830. However the wild colonial boy is set in the gold rush days of the 1860s. No bush ranger from that era with a similar name is known.
No Australian version would refer to praries or mocking birds. We don't have these. For these Americanisms they should be clapped in irons and sent to Botany Bay!
Otherwise a nice version.
hkeddieme 3 years ago 12