21. Bluey Brink (Traditional Australian)

A tall story from the Australian bush. Shearers had to be tough.

The song is often sung to the tune of "Villikins and His Dinah", a melody which is probably used for more songs than any other, though, in the version I know, the tune is barely recognisable as "Villikins".

It has been recorded by Trevor Lucas and A. A. Lloyd (accompanied by Peggy Seeger).

This song is on my first CD: "AXIS OF EVIL and other True Stories."

You can see a playlist of my Australian songs here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0DE11C284435E7A2

For a playlist of all my a capella songs:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E81659B9EA983BB2

For lyrics and chords of all my songs, please see my website: http://www.raymondcrooke.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• song
• tall
• tale
• exaggeration
• Australia
• drinking
• shearer
• shearing

[bluybrink]

Gentleman, that was performed very nicely. Thank you.

[raymondcrooke]

@bluybrink You're most welcome. Good to see somebody is still watching this after four years.

[twodogshellbound]

Mate, i've heard a few of your songs, out of your list.

Mate, your good.

You have brought back lots of memories from school, and listening to records as a child.

Keep up the great work.

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for the feedback. Great to know you are enjoying my songs.

[JBurdoo]

Good one. I learned this to the same tune on an old album by, I think, John Treadaway. At the age of ten. Imagine the horror of relatives and teachers...

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks. First comment in a year! It's a great Aussie song, but I wasn't as young as you were when I first heard it.

[darlingtester1982]

Hello Raymond Good song well done, Hugs Kisses Love Gizmo xox

[XxWaveWarlockxX]

hahaha. yes, he's obviously an old pro:) some of these are gold.

[therealdylanperry]

You're such an actor...lol!

Nice T-shirt too :]