<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343935" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Thousand Miles Away</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hurrah for the Roma railway! Hurrah for Cobb and Co.,<br>And oh! for a good fat horse or two to carry me Westward Ho<br>To carry me Westward Ho! my boys, that's where the cattle stray<br>On the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles away.<br>Chorus<br>Then give your horses rein across the open plain,<br>We'll ship our meat both sound and sweet, nor care what some folks say;<br>And frozen we'll send home the cattle that now roam<br>On the far Barcoo and the Flinders too, a thousand miles away.<br>Knee-deep in grass we've got to pass—for the truth I'm bound to tell<br>Where in three weeks the cattle get as fat as they can swell<br>As fat as they can swell, my boys; a thousand pounds they weigh,<br>On the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No Yankee hide e'er grew outside such beef as we can freeze;<br>No Yankee pastures make such steers as we send o'er the sea<br>As we send o'er the seas, my boys, a thousand pounds they weigh<br>From the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343935" data-title="A Thousand Miles Away de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="Hurrah for the Roma railway! Hurrah for Cobb and Co., And oh! for a good fat horse or two to carry me Westward Ho To carry me Westward Ho! my boys, that's where the cattle stray On the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles away. Chor..."></div> </div> </div>

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